Something like 95% of LWers self-classify as social liberals.
Regrettable! I'd hope more would have the good sense to be Communists ;-).
Why would such a phenomenally non-socially-conservative group fixate on neoreaction unless it had some surface plausibility?
Because people are often attracted to things which offend them, like Republican Senators and homosexual prostitution ;-). This is pretty obvious if you model LWers as human beings rather than Bayesian utility maximizers.
That neoreaction uses bits of LW argot is probably more relevant, but it's hard for me to imagine it being the whole explanation. Would a serious creationist last long here just because they larded their comments with our jargon?
That depends. Was he once a spokesman for the Singularity Institute?
Regrettable! I'd hope more would have the good sense to be Communists ;-).
At least you can console yourself with communism's infinite growth rate since our first survey!
Because people are often attracted to things which offend them, like Republican Senators and homosexual prostitution ;-). This is pretty obvious if you model LWers as human beings rather than Bayesian utility maximizers.
It may be "pretty obvious", but does it work as an explanation? Other socially conservative ideologies (like the mainstream US conservatism represented by &...
Through LessWrong, I've discovered the no-reactionary movement. Servery says that there are some of you here.
I'm curious, what lead you to accept the basic premises of the movement? What is the story of your personal "conversion"? Was there some particular insight or information that was important in convincing you? Was it something that just "clicked" for you or that you had always felt in a vague way? Were any of you "raised in it"?
Feel free to forward my questions to others or direct me towards a better forum for asking this.
I hope that this is in no way demeaning or insulting. I'm genuinely curious and my questioning is value free. If you point me towards compelling evidence of the neo-reactionary premise, I'll update on it.