Ummm… are things like this OB post really supposed to be considered even remotely about Rationality? It’s basically just Robin Hanson using a few anecdotes to weave himself a short narrative designed to justify his misanthropy and make himself feel better about holding political positions others consider immoral.
Because it was linked under “Recent on Rationality Blogs”, I figured I’d give it a whirl, and was pretty surprised to find such low-grade reasoning on such a list.
Even a generally rational person may write an irrational article once in a time. (I am speaking generally here; I haven’t read the specific article yet.) To create a list containing only rational articles, someone would have to check each one of them individually, and vote.
Adding such functionality to LW software would be too much work. But maybe it could be done indirectly. We could do the voting on some other website (for example Reddit), and import only the positively-voted links to LW. But this would need a group of people to add new articles, read them, and vote.
There are multiple valid criticism of the way things are labeled but if you want to make that criticism it would be worthwhile to think a bit deeper about the structures and why they are arranged the way they are.
BTW, did anyone else get an audio track on that page? I don’t see any visible embedded media, but some sort of music track started a few seconds after loading the page, and stopped the moment I closed the window. Same thing when I reopened the page. I downloaded the HTML, but I didn’t see a cause of it there. A few minutes later it no longer happened, although the HTML of the page was identical to the previous download.
ETA: This may be the explanation. Some sort of advertising thing. The song described there is what I heard.
Ummm… are things like this OB post really supposed to be considered even remotely about Rationality? It’s basically just Robin Hanson using a few anecdotes to weave himself a short narrative designed to justify his misanthropy and make himself feel better about holding political positions others consider immoral.
Why are you asking that question?
Because it was linked under “Recent on Rationality Blogs”, I figured I’d give it a whirl, and was pretty surprised to find such low-grade reasoning on such a list.
Even a generally rational person may write an irrational article once in a time. (I am speaking generally here; I haven’t read the specific article yet.) To create a list containing only rational articles, someone would have to check each one of them individually, and vote.
Adding such functionality to LW software would be too much work. But maybe it could be done indirectly. We could do the voting on some other website (for example Reddit), and import only the positively-voted links to LW. But this would need a group of people to add new articles, read them, and vote.
“Once in a time” is quite an understatement of the frequency of completely preposterous posts on OB.
That’s a stupid argument.
There are multiple valid criticism of the way things are labeled but if you want to make that criticism it would be worthwhile to think a bit deeper about the structures and why they are arranged the way they are.
Tenure.
BTW, did anyone else get an audio track on that page? I don’t see any visible embedded media, but some sort of music track started a few seconds after loading the page, and stopped the moment I closed the window. Same thing when I reopened the page. I downloaded the HTML, but I didn’t see a cause of it there. A few minutes later it no longer happened, although the HTML of the page was identical to the previous download.
ETA: This may be the explanation. Some sort of advertising thing. The song described there is what I heard.