fubarobfusco comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 10 September 2012 08:05:04PM *  -2 points [-]

I don't like that you tried to stick me with defending rape culture, also. That's just inflammatory.

I thought we were both responding to the general topic; I didn't mean to imply that you had that intention.

Are you saying we shouldn't have a concept of "creepy people" only a concept of "creepy behavior"? Because while that might work well in the abstract, in reality it's important to predict how people will behave, which requires using labels and categories and heuristics.

Sure, but we need to check that these are grounded in reality. For instance, if conforming to a particular subcultural or class norm doesn't actually correlate with being less likely to do bad behaviors X, Y, and Z, then we shouldn't treat them like it does.

Comment author: chaosmosis 10 September 2012 08:09:56PM 1 point [-]

Sure, but we need to check that these are grounded in reality. For instance, if conforming to a particular subcultural or class norm doesn't actually correlate with being less likely to do bad behaviors X, Y, and Z, then we shouldn't treat them like it does.

Okay. This doesn't clash with my position.