Lumifer comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2014 09:58:19PM 1 point [-]

Race2 is not a valid biological construct. Certain people by “race” mean that, and call race1 other words e.g. “ancestry”.

Sure, there also are people who say that race1 is not a valid biological construct. Bu then again, there also are people who say that Elvis is not dead.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 November 2014 03:06:58AM 2 points [-]

The former are perfectly capable of getting those of a different opinion into a lot of trouble. The latter aren't.