Kzickas comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (6th thread, July 2013) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kzickas 04 August 2013 04:34:09AM *  0 points [-]

The impression I got from looking at their graph is that a strong libertarian component is enough by itself. It wouldn't be the first time I've seen people consider libertarianism inherently very regressive.

Edit: Originally I assumed that it was accusing Less Wrong of being neoreactionary, but looking a bit around the site it looks like they might be praising it.

Comment author: Nornagest 04 August 2013 05:39:41AM 3 points [-]

I don't think that's a powerful enough explanation. Setting aside the differences between libertarianism and neoreaction, there are far more libertarian-leaning blogs than that graph can account for, and many of the missing ones are more popular than we.

Comment author: metastable 04 August 2013 06:25:32AM 0 points [-]

I agree.

It might be worth noting that in this thread, the other thread where we just crossed paths, there are two different posters who blog at other nodes in that graph.