Vaniver comments on Rationality Quotes Thread April 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 14 April 2015 02:13:29PM *  -1 points [-]

Your link goes to the page for the genus "homo", not to the page for "human," which starts:

But, of course, if you go to the disambiguation page, it points to the genus (that I linked) as another use of the word.

That's what makes it trolling.

I agree that "trolling" describes a person's intention more cleanly than it describes a claim's truth, but the claim's truth remains more important to me than whether or not the claim-maker is trolling.

I didn't want to quote the precise bile spewed by Mr. Beale, as it doesn't seem relevant, but you can find what he actually wrote in the link above.

So, I went and looked it up. You do realize that he is complaining that she doesn't have enough Neanderthal admixture, right? (But even then, I don't think species-level distinctions capture his true point, so much as the selective pressures of living in civilization / the slow change of cultures.)