Emile comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: shokwave 21 January 2014 04:25:00AM 2 points [-]

The same problem you presumably have with someone external writing an article about how LW is a group of criminals: it makes us look bad.

You might not agree with self-proclaimed high IQ being a social negative, but most of the world does.

Comment author: Emile 21 January 2014 12:05:47PM 0 points [-]

Depends of how loudly you self-proclaim it. It's not as we had a mensa banner on the frontpage or something.

Comment author: shokwave 23 January 2014 12:34:50PM 2 points [-]

And the same goes for recreational drug-use, no? If it's just in the survey like IQ is and we don't have a banner proclaiming it, the argument that it might make us look bad doesn't hold any water.