taelor comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong
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I think the problem with Moldbug is that he's so firmly wedded himself to fighting against the whiggish naratives that are so deeply embeded in our historical accounts that he falls into the very trap that Herbert Butterfield, the original critic of whiggish naratives, warned of:
(On an unrelated note, I occasionally find myself falling into a different, more sublte trap that Butterfield also warned of: