Emile comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 27 November 2012 09:48:28PM 5 points [-]

Dear lord no I don't want to pick a side! That's the road to brain damage! And I don't care much about who's oppressing who, it's not a very useful frame for looking at things (as if being oppressed made anybody more likely to be right!).

A more interesting question is determining what a disagreement is about, and on what points disagreeing sides can agree. Often loud advocates on either side of a disagreement couldn't even describe accurately what their opponents think!

Comment author: ialdabaoth 27 November 2012 09:53:22PM 3 points [-]

Dear lord no I don't want to pick a side! That's the road to brain damage! And I don't care much about who's oppressing who, it's not a very useful frame for looking at things (as if being oppressed made anybody more likely to be right!).

This is important and valid. Thank you for saying it. I will reexamine the processes that led to that statement and report back, but this may take a bit of time. Is that acceptable?

Comment author: Emile 27 November 2012 09:57:34PM 3 points [-]

Sure! These threads are getting kinda tentacular, and I don't think anybody will be very offended by a lack of answer.

(I'm constantly surprised at how many threads here don't degenerate into shouting matches)