DeVliegendeHollander comments on Open Thread, May 18 - May 24, 2015 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Gondolinian 18 May 2015 12:01AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 May 2015 11:07:00AM 2 points [-]

Eh, it is just useful to have a generic discussion forum on the Internet with a high average IQ and a certain culture of epistemic sanity / trying to avoid at least the worst fallacies and biases. If out of the many ideas in the sequences, at least "tabooing" would get out into the wild so people on other forums would get more used to discussing actual things instead of labels and categories, it could become bearable out there. For example you can hardly have a sane discussion in economics.reddit.com because labels like capitalism and socialism being used as rallying flags.