FeepingCreature comments on "NRx" vs. "Prog" Assumptions: Locating the Sources of Disagreement Between Neoreactionaries and Progressives (Part 1) - Less Wrong
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Gay marriage is a straightforward simplification of marriage.
If you think of marriage as merely a database entry or XML tag with no connection to how the participants act or should act in the real word, yes.
I was trying to draw a comparison to Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism - Universal Marriage as simplified Hetero Marriage.
Could you spell out the connection, I don't see it.
Eliezers essay looks at humanism, looks at the reasons for it and than argues that those reasons apply to transhumanism. The article you linked to starts with a model of marriage that has already abstracted away all the reasons for it existing in the first place and goes from there.
Eliezer's essay then makes the case that transhumanism is preferable because it lacks special rules.
By analogy: "Love is good. Isolation is bad. If two people are in love, they can marry. It's that simple. You don't have to look at anybody's gender."
Elegant program designs imply elegant (occam!) rules.
Um, marriage isn't just about love, also the nature of heterosexual and homosexual "love" is very different.
From the article I linked above:
If you think if words as having intrinsic connections to Platinum Forms..