Eugine_Nier comments on Changing Systems is Different than Running Controlled Experiments - Don’t Choose How to Run Your Country That Way! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 June 2013 05:53:25AM 2 points [-]

"Blues and Greens"; Republicans and Democrats; socialists and libertarians;

feminists vs. PUA/MRA

Comment author: jaibot 13 June 2013 05:58:17PM 0 points [-]

Avoiding the tribalism doesn't mean avoiding all the object-level bits of reality the tribes are interested in.

It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say "we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians" and then LessWrong doesn't discuss X anymore.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 June 2013 03:11:03AM 2 points [-]

It seems...broken if I can get together a group of people and say "we have strong opinions about X and we call ourselves Xians" and then LessWrong doesn't discuss X anymore.

I never said we couldn't have political discussions about X. What I said was don't use X as an example when making a non-political point.

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