skeptical_lurker comments on Suppose HBD is True - Less Wrong

-12 Post author: OrphanWilde 21 April 2016 01:34PM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 21 April 2016 10:57:35PM 1 point [-]

you get as much information in 5 seconds as you do from just knowing the candidate's skin colour ... make it a minute and I think he's probably right

I'd be inclined to agree, but that's not what he said. What he said is that in 5 seconds you can gain not just as much information as from knowing the race, but so much more information that the racial information is rendered completely irrelevant. This is wrong, if HBD is right.

Comment author: gjm 22 April 2016 10:24:38AM -1 points [-]

Yes, it is wrong, and I already said so myself. (In fact, as it happens I said it before you did.) I wasn't claiming that everything you said is wrong; only that you misunderstood one claim OrphanWilde made. (You yourself split up your objections into "First", "Second", and "Third"; I was commenting only on the "First".)

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 22 April 2016 01:27:55PM 1 point [-]

I'm not trying to argue with you, sorry if I came across like that. In fact I've already upvoted your comments in this discussion.

Comment author: gjm 22 April 2016 02:12:28PM -1 points [-]

It would appear that others have a different opinion of them :-).