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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 29 December 2015 08:13:57PM *  2 points [-]

I don't think it's going to be very difficult to discover Eugene's new account once he makes it. The real difficulty is making it not worth his while to keep coming back.


I don't count myself as either a rationalist or a community member here, so this is an opinion of a somewhat sympathetic outsider (take it for what it is). But I think you guys should find a way to throw the nrx out, and let them start their own community. I think they are going to do more harm than good in the long run. Yvain started to clean house already on his blog, because he noticed the same.

Comment author: satt 03 January 2016 10:58:05PM 0 points [-]

I don't think it's going to be very difficult to discover Eugene's new account once he makes it. The real difficulty is making it not worth his while to keep coming back.

Seconded.

I don't count myself as either a rationalist or a community member here,

FWIW, I think of anyone who posts here regularly as a Wronger! (I know, I know, you disagree with other people here about how to do causal inference and about the insightfulness/worthiness of academics — but disagreeing with the rest of the gang on some specific topic is pretty common, I reckon, and not nearly enough to get you kicked out of the treehouse.)

I think you guys should find a way to throw the nrx out, and let them start their own community. I think they are going to do more harm than good in the long run.

This I disagree with. The only neoreactionaries I remember being obnoxious enough here to raise a real stink are Eugine_Nier and Jim, and Jim hasn't posted here since 2012. That's too thin a basis for kicking out a particular political group, especially since Eugine_Nier being here has had some benefit. (I have occasionally seen them shake people out of misconceptions.) It's just that Eugine_Nier's abuse of the voting system outweighed/outweighs that benefit. (That wasn't Eugine_Nier's only downside, but it was the big one.)

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 07 January 2016 01:50:26AM *  0 points [-]

you disagree with other people here about how to do causal inference

I don't think I have substantive disagreements with folks here who know about the topic. I try to do outreach with others, not the same as disagreement :).