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Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2014 11:09:54AM *  1 point [-]

Ummm... are things like this OB post really supposed to be considered even remotely about Rationality? It's basically just Robin Hanson using a few anecdotes to weave himself a short narrative designed to justify his misanthropy and make himself feel better about holding political positions others consider immoral.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 November 2014 05:59:16PM 2 points [-]

are things like this OB post really supposed to be considered even remotely about Rationality?

Why are you asking that question?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 November 2014 07:44:58AM 1 point [-]

Because it was linked under "Recent on Rationality Blogs", I figured I'd give it a whirl, and was pretty surprised to find such low-grade reasoning on such a list.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 November 2014 01:13:14PM *  1 point [-]

Even a generally rational person may write an irrational article once in a time. (I am speaking generally here; I haven't read the specific article yet.) To create a list containing only rational articles, someone would have to check each one of them individually, and vote.

Adding such functionality to LW software would be too much work. But maybe it could be done indirectly. We could do the voting on some other website (for example Reddit), and import only the positively-voted links to LW. But this would need a group of people to add new articles, read them, and vote.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 November 2014 11:21:08PM 0 points [-]

“Once in a time” is quite an understatement of the frequency of completely preposterous posts on OB.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 November 2014 02:24:16PM *  1 point [-]

Tenure.

BTW, did anyone else get an audio track on that page? I don't see any visible embedded media, but some sort of music track started a few seconds after loading the page, and stopped the moment I closed the window. Same thing when I reopened the page. I downloaded the HTML, but I didn't see a cause of it there. A few minutes later it no longer happened, although the HTML of the page was identical to the previous download.

ETA: This may be the explanation. Some sort of advertising thing. The song described there is what I heard.