Multiheaded comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Multiheaded 27 June 2012 01:50:43PM *  -1 points [-]

Also you miss the point utterly if I'm allowed to be politically correct when liberal, gee, maybe political correctness is a political weapon! The very application of such standards means that if I stick to it on LW I am actively participating in the enforcement of a ideology.

No! No! No! All you've got to do is speak the language! Hell, the filtering is mostly for the language! And when you pass the first barrier like that, you can confuse the witch-hunters and imply pretty much anything you want, as long as you can make any attack on you look rude. You can have any ideology and use the surface language of any other ideology as long as they have comparable complexity. Hell, Moldbug sorta tries to do it.

Comment author: formido 27 June 2012 06:22:17PM 4 points [-]

Moldbug cannot survive on a progressive message board. He was hellbanned from Hacker News right away. Log in to Hacker News and turn on showdead: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moldbug

Comment author: Multiheaded 27 June 2012 06:42:46PM -1 points [-]

Doesn't matter. I've seen him here and there around the net, and he holds himself to rather high standards on his own blog, which is where he does his only real evangelizing, yet he gets into flamewars, spews directed bile and just outright trolls people in other places.

I guess he's only comfortable enough to do his thing for real and at length when he's in his little fortress. That's not at all unusual, you know.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 June 2012 01:53:36PM 3 points [-]

You can have any ideology and use the surface language of any other ideology as long as they have comparable complexity.

There should be a term for the idealogical equivalent of Turing completeness.