taelor comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 21 November 2014 09:26:09PM 2 points [-]

Imagine you're choosing which species to try and be 450 million years ago. You could try and be a mammal, or you could try and be a horseshoe crab. If you become a mammal, maybe one day you'll go to the stars! Or maybe you'll wind up like most kinds of mammals, and go extinct. But if you're a horseshoe crab, you'll still be around, pretty much the same, 450 million years later!

I personally would rather be a bipedal ape. But I don't think it's totally unreasonable to want to be the crab.

Comment author: taelor 21 November 2014 10:56:06PM 1 point [-]

As an aside, can someone please explain what the deal with reactionaries and crabs is? I feel like there's some context here that I'm missing.

Comment author: jaime2000 21 November 2014 11:27:25PM *  3 points [-]