William_Quixote comments on [POLL] LessWrong group on YourMorals.org (2015) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: William_Quixote 03 March 2015 03:58:24AM 4 points [-]

If you check the survey results you will find that the large pluralality of less wrong types range from socialist / progressive / center left rather than libertarian.

Comment author: gwern 03 March 2015 04:12:50AM 8 points [-]

Maybe that's what they self-identify as, but the non-explicitly-political results seem to usually more similar to libertarians.

Comment author: Manfred 04 March 2015 04:59:44PM 7 points [-]

The best explanation, I think, is that there's some subgroup of the population with certain psychological traits, and only a fraction of these people are libertarians, but most libertarians are these sorts of people.

Comment author: Transfuturist 04 March 2015 01:49:28AM 1 point [-]

Libertarian socialism FTW.