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Sigh.
These people are clearly unable to distinguish between "the territory" and "the person who talks about the territory".
I had to breathe calmly for a few moments. Okay, I'm not touching this shit on the object level again.
On a meta level, I wonder how much of the missing rationality skills these people never had vs how much they had but lost later when they became politically mindkilled.
What about that sentence makes you think that the person isn't able to make that distinction?
If you look at YCombinator the semantics are a bit different but the message isn't that different. YCombinator also talks about how diversity is important. The epistemic method they teach founders is not to think abstractly about a topic and engage with it analytically but that it's important to speak to people to understand t... (read more)