Dustin comments on Dark Arts 101: Be rigorous, on average - LessWrong

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Comment author: Dustin 31 December 2014 01:59:21AM 32 points [-]

I realized I like this post because I identify with LessWrong, contrarianism, highlighting wrongness of high-status individuals, and a handful of other related concepts.

I find myself disliking Steiner, scoffing at institutions that give him position and those who give his book a good review.

All that despite barely being aware that Steiner exists and certainly never having read a thing he wrote.

Kinda scary.

I mean the criticisms might all be valid, but all I have to go on is the five minutes I spent reading this post.

Comment author: Gram_Stone 31 December 2014 06:40:43AM 6 points [-]

I was just thinking of this before I read this and I thought of a twist to put on LW that might make it easier for me not to get sucked into groupthink: "LessWrong is not my community; LessWrong is a location." Instead of LW being equivalent to the sum of my 'colleagues,' it's more like LW is the Roman Forum.

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 January 2015 12:59:20PM *  -1 points [-]

http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/954.html

teh carthage was a city state based in Northern Africa and the greatest thorn in the side of the Roman Republic, fighting several wars against them. The Romans eventually conquered Carthage and incoporated its territory into their own. Of course, this implies this theme is set in Republican Rome, not Imperial Rome, contrary to indications in previous strips, but we've already established that anachronism is the least of our worries.

The Roman Forum was the administrative, commercial, and religious centre of ancient Rome. As the centre of the greatest empire of the day, it was a stronghold of collected wisdom, intelligent discussion, and skilled rhetoric by the greatest masters of language and thought.

An Internet forum has none of these features.

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