Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013

passive_fist

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

Moldbug weighs in on the Techcrunch thing, with words on LW:

Alexander is a disciple of the equally humorless "rationalist" movement Less Wrong, a sort of Internet update of Robespierre's good old Cult of Reason, Lenin's very rational Museums of Atheism, etc, etc. If you want my opinion on this subject, it is that - alas - there is no way of becoming reasonable, other than to be reasonable. Reason is wisdom. There is no formula for wisdom - and of all unwise beliefs, the belief that wisdom can be reduced to a formula, a prayer chant, a mantra, whatever, is the most ridiculous.

We're so humorless that our primary piece of evangelical material is a Harry Potter fanfiction.

17Leonhart13y

It's "humorless" that hurts the most, of course. Out of interest, does anyone here have a positive unpacking of "wisdom" that makes it a useful concept, as opposed to "getting people to do what you want by sounding like an idealised parental figure"? Is it simply "having built up a large cache of actually useful responses"?

11JoshuaZ13y

It is interesting how similar in style and thought patterns this is to the far left rant about LW from a few months ago.

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