Oligopsony comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 April 2012 05:58:20PM 3 points [-]

You left out one common definition.

A "Racist0" is someone who has accurate priors about the behavior of people of different races.

Also I don't see why calling Obama the "Food Stamp President" or otherwise criticizing his economic policy president makes one a jerk, much less a "Racist2" unless one already believes that all criticism of Obama is racist by definition.

Comment author: Oligopsony 11 April 2012 05:06:11AM 0 points [-]

A "Racist0" is someone who has accurate priors about the behavior of people of different races.

That's the R2 way of phrasing R{1,2}, like "race traitor" is the R3 way of phrasing R1 or celandine's phrasings are from an R1 perspective. (Not saying you are a jerk; just trying to separate out precisely such connotative differences from these useful clusters/concentric rings in peoplespace.)

(N.B. that if this definition wasn't question-begging and/or indexical it would imply that iff accurate priors are equal over races then the genuinely colorblind are racists.)

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 April 2012 06:46:08AM 2 points [-]

That's the R2 way of phrasing R{1,2}, like "race traitor" is the R3 way of phrasing R1 or celandine's phrasings are from an R1 perspective. (Not saying you are a jerk; just trying to separate out precisely such connotative differences from these useful clusters/concentric rings in peoplespace.)

Possibly, I couldn't quite figure out Mixed Nuts' definitions because he seemed to be implicitly assuming that accurate priors were equal over races.

(N.B. that if this definition wasn't question-begging and/or indexical it would imply that iff accurate priors are equal over races then the genuinely colorblind are racists.)

Well they aren't. Nevertheless, I should probably have said something more like:

A "Racist0" is someone who rationally believes that priors aren't equal over races.