In my opinion, both the insistence on MWI and the heavily kool-aidish emphasis on evo-psych are examples of such failures in the sequences.
This gives me a (trivial) update in the direction of MWI! (ie. A higher correlation between critics of Eliezer’s rather uncontroversial evo-psych position with critics of his MW position makes the MW position slightly more plausible.)
Is that not a species of the “Hitler was a vegetarian” argument?
No. If it was then the species “Hitler was a vegetarian” would be would be valid—which would thereby make the Hitler reference a mere Godwin violation.
This gives me a (trivial) update in the direction of MWI! (ie. A higher correlation between critics of Eliezer’s rather uncontroversial evo-psych position with critics of his MW position makes the MW position slightly more plausible.)
Is that not a species of the “Hitler was a vegetarian” argument?
No. If it was then the species “Hitler was a vegetarian” would be would be valid—which would thereby make the Hitler reference a mere Godwin violation.