FiftyTwo comments on Has LessWrong Ever Backfired On You? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 16 December 2014 02:56:24PM 2 points [-]

Yeah, I've had people complain about the standard basilisk and weird AI speculation stuff. Also the association with neoreactionaries, sexists and HBD people.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 February 2015 04:36:29PM 0 points [-]

Sometimes you get the opposite - LW seen as an SJW forum because Scott Alexander is okay with referring to his partner as ze/zir/zur in his blog and if you are not American, or over 40, or at any rate did not go to a US college in the last 15 years this comes accross as weird. I remember even on Reddit as late as 2009 the "in" "progressive" thing was to hate Bush, not to understand something about transgenderism or feminism or what, so it is a very recent thing, I would say, in mainstream circles.