What view? This seemed largely substanceless, often arbitrary/wrong, and a waste of my time. It had no overarching view except to state his own negative interpretation of various bits of the rationalist scene as fact. (Downvoted.)
Example of substanceless:
Rationalism is the notion that the universe is a collection of true facts… but my own perspective is different. I think the universe is not a collection of true facts; I think a good forty to fifty percent of it consists of lies, myths, ambiguities, ghosts, and chasms of meaning that are not ours to plumb.
Example of wrong:
The main character of HPMOR is called Harry Potter, but—and the author has been very open about this—in fact he’s a stand-in for Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Fine by me that this doesn’t meet your bar for what counts as a view. It is, however, very literally a ‘way he sees you and your friends’, and being seen a way has consequences, no matter how incoherent or inaccurate the way you’re being seen is.
FWIW I don’t agree that being seen a way reliably has any consequences that matter. I should probably write a post sometime on my view about the importance of not respecting or paying much attention to people who are paying attention to you; this point of disagreement has come up a lot.
What view? This seemed largely substanceless, often arbitrary/wrong, and a waste of my time. It had no overarching view except to state his own negative interpretation of various bits of the rationalist scene as fact. (Downvoted.)
Example of substanceless:
Example of wrong:
Fine by me that this doesn’t meet your bar for what counts as a view. It is, however, very literally a ‘way he sees you and your friends’, and being seen a way has consequences, no matter how incoherent or inaccurate the way you’re being seen is.
I see! Thx for clarifying.
FWIW I don’t agree that being seen a way reliably has any consequences that matter. I should probably write a post sometime on my view about the importance of not respecting or paying much attention to people who are paying attention to you; this point of disagreement has come up a lot.
I think we only disagree on the margin — about ‘how reliably’