XiXiDu comments on xkcd on the AI box experiment - Less Wrong Discussion
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I am a member for more than 5 years now. So I am probably as much part of LW as most people. I have repeatedly said that LessWrong is the most intelligent and rational community I know of.
To quote one of my posts:
I even defended LessWrong against RationalWiki previously.
The difference is that I also highlight the crazy and outrageous stuff that can be found on LessWrong. And I also don't bother offending the many fanboys who have a problem with this.
Seriously, you bring up a post titled "The Singularity Institute: How They Brainwash You" as supposed evidence towards you supporting LessWrong, MIRI whatever?
Yes, when you talk to LessWrongers, then you occasionally mention the old thing of how you consider it the "most intelligent and rational community I know of". But that evaluation isn't what you constantly repeat to people outside Lesswrong. When asking people "What does Alexander Kruel think of LessWrong?" nobody will say "He endorses it as the most intelligent and rational community he knows of!"
To people outside LessWrong you keep talking about how LessWrong/MIRI/whatever are people out to brainwash you. That's you being pretty much a definitive example of 'two-faced'.
You have edited your posts in that thread beyond all recognition. Back then (your original version of your posts) I bashed you for unthinking support of Lesswrong and unthinking condemnation of Rationalwiki.
As I said back then:
In short your "defense" of LessWrong against Rationalwiki at that time was as worthless, as unjust, as motivated by whatever biases drive you, as any later criticism of LessWrong by you has been. Whether defending LessWrong or criticizing it, you're always being in the wrong.