You are correct in that I was not explicitly saying that LessWrong is vulnerable to this (except for the fact that this assumption hasn’t really been pushed back on until nowish), but to be honest I do expect some percentage of LessWrong folks to end up believing this regardless of evidence. That’s not really a critique against the community as a whole though, because in any group, no matter how forward-thinking, you’ll find people who don’t adjust much based on evidence contrary to their beliefs.
You are correct in that I was not explicitly saying that LessWrong is vulnerable to this (except for the fact that this assumption hasn’t really been pushed back on until nowish), but to be honest I do expect some percentage of LessWrong folks to end up believing this regardless of evidence. That’s not really a critique against the community as a whole though, because in any group, no matter how forward-thinking, you’ll find people who don’t adjust much based on evidence contrary to their beliefs.