TimS comments on Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms - LessWrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: TimS 10 October 2012 08:41:56PM 2 points [-]

My mental model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is that he thinks all postmodernism is nonsense - as others have noted. If he intended to say something equivalent to "Postmodernist got this point right" then what he wrote is not how I expect he would say it. Further, the attack that I am reading into his words is a standard understanding of postmodernism in this community.

But the community seems to agree with you more than I - so I'm adjusting slightly in favor of me misreading Eliezer's intent.

Comment author: Pudlovich 06 April 2015 09:25:30PM 0 points [-]

I certainly read it as "postmodernists notice that the word true is used as mere emphasis <and so they are really angry when someone talks about 'truth', hence relativism>".

Your interpretation doesn't exactly align with the essence of postmodernism (as I see it, I'm no expert).