Vaniver comments on Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong

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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.