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Comment author: username2 30 December 2015 02:14:31AM 1 point [-]

But I think you guys should find a way to throw the nrx out, and let them start their own community.

Why? Because you'd rather have an echo-chamber than a rationalist community? Because you secretly suspect the NRx's are correct and are worried their arguments will persuade more people to agree with them?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 30 December 2015 03:23:09PM 2 points [-]

First, stop putting words in people's mouths. Second, as rationalists, we'd convert to NRx in an instant if we had any sufficiently strong reason to believe NRx is correct.

Comment author: Vaniver 30 December 2015 06:49:15PM *  5 points [-]

Second, as rationalists, we'd convert to NRx in an instant if we had any sufficiently strong reason to believe NRx is correct.

This isn't obvious to me, or at least would benefit from a separation between NRx critiques and NRx proposals / attitudes. One can think that the NRx view of liberal democracy is much more correct than the liberal democracy view of liberal democracy without thinking that the NRx prescriptions are correct.

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