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ChristianKl comments on Stupid Questions, 2nd half of December - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 January 2016 06:31:38AM 1 point [-]

This is the point where I say "politics is the mind killer"

Not necessarily, but I'm curious whether you're willing to chomp down on bullets.

However, current ideas of race have so little genetic basis as to be useless

I am not particularly attached to the strawful "popular" ideas of race that you are so fond of skewering. But are you willing to admit that large groups of humans can be significantly different on the "genetic basis"?

Outside of those areas I would be a fool to think I could do so without some recourse to expert analysis

The issue is bias, incentives, credibility, trust. "Some recourse" is different from "defer to the experts whatever they say". I am not a fan of high-priesthood treatment of science.