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Alejandro1 comments on There is no such thing as strength: a parody - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: ZoltanBerrigomo 05 July 2015 11:44PM

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Comment author: gjm 07 July 2015 11:38:39PM 1 point [-]

I completely agree: the fact that something isn't simple and one-dimensional and perfectly unambiguous doesn't make it completely unreal or completely useless. So, for the avoidance of doubt, if anyone says "intelligence is multidimensional and hard to measure and culturally loaded; therefore there is no such thing as intelligence" and means the Stupidest Possible Thing by that last bit rather than something subtler, then I think they're wrong.

Incidentally, so far I think everything I have posted in this discussion has been downvoted exactly twice. I guess one is Eugine/Azathoth/VoiceOfRa; would anyone like to lay claim to the second lot? I'm curious in particular, about whether there's any information in the downvotes beyond what I already have from Zoltan's disagreement with me plus the fact that, duh, I'm posting non-neoreactionary opinions in a discussion of race and intelligence, so of course VoiceOfRa is going to downvote me. So: if you're reading this and downvoted me for a reason other than seeing me as a sociopolitical enemy, you can probably improve the effectiveness of your downvote by telling me why you gave it. Thank you.

Comment author: Alejandro1 08 July 2015 02:41:56PM 0 points [-]

I guess one is Eugine/Azathoth/VoiceOfRa

I had suddenly the same suspicion about VoR today, in a spontaneous way; has there been previous discussion of this conjecture that I missed?

Comment author: gjm 08 July 2015 04:20:26PM 1 point [-]

A little. At this point I'm at least 99% confident VoR is the same person flouting the ban again. I've not had a lot of downvotes on ancient comments lately, though, so I think he's being a bit better behaved than in the past. (Though I find the downvote-for-political-disagreement strategy rude, and I don't think it's just because the practitioners I've noticed all have politics quite different from mine.)