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jmmcd comments on Is Less Wrong discouraging less nerdy people from participating? - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: JoshuaZ 24 January 2011 02:24AM

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Comment author: jmmcd 24 January 2011 06:19:54AM 3 points [-]

one form of fantastic escapism involving imaginary spaceships

This is a telling misunderstanding of what SF is about.

Comment author: Document 24 January 2011 09:01:09AM 14 points [-]

...of what SF is about to futurists interested in serious and original thought about the future, which one would expect to find on LW. Not necessarily to SF writers or the general public. I think the point is that we should have consistent meta-level rules on what it's okay to look down on people for; i.e. that the same rules should be applied for "nerds" and non-"nerds".