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

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Comment author: Kzickas 05 August 2013 12:24:07PM *  1 point [-]

While I'm not sure what "neoreactionary" refers to specifically there are lots of reasons that certain types of liberals see LessWrong as reactionary:

  • A somewhat strong libertarian component
  • Belief in evolutionary psychology
  • Anti-religous (or generally the belief that beliefs can be right or wrong)
  • LessWrong's more technical understanding of evidence is incompatible with standpoint theory and similar epistemic frameworks favored by some groups of liberals.
  • Those older discussions around PUA where it's presented in a pretty positive light
  • Glorification of the enlightenment.