I sympathize with your sentiment, but guess you’ll have a hard time persuading LW/OB rationalists to act up against SWPL—great name for the phenomenon btw, I will use it from now on. First, such actions would greatly harm the stated goal of outreach to intelligent/educated demographics. Second, on sober thought SWPL per se hasn’t yet caused as much hurt in the world as competing ideologies have (I’m not counting spiritual ancestors, this would be unfair). Third, a lot of us here are SWPL followers.
Perhaps we could make some progress if we employed a divide and conquer strategy. The agendas of the SW and PL blocs are not entirely consonant. Generally speaking, the SW position is somewhat more amenable to the techniques of rationality discussed on this site. The PL worldview, however, is more deeply committed to dark side epistemology (though I imagine that that could be a controversial position even here).
Second, on sober thought SWPL per se hasn’t yet caused as much hurt in the world as competing ideologies have.
Agreed, the subculture in question seems fairly innocuous in itself. It needs infiltration and purging of dangerous aspects, not external opposition (fortunately, we seem to already have many inside agents).
I sympathize with your sentiment, but guess you’ll have a hard time persuading LW/OB rationalists to act up against SWPL—great name for the phenomenon btw, I will use it from now on. First, such actions would greatly harm the stated goal of outreach to intelligent/educated demographics. Second, on sober thought SWPL per se hasn’t yet caused as much hurt in the world as competing ideologies have (I’m not counting spiritual ancestors, this would be unfair). Third, a lot of us here are SWPL followers.
Perhaps we could make some progress if we employed a divide and conquer strategy. The agendas of the SW and PL blocs are not entirely consonant. Generally speaking, the SW position is somewhat more amenable to the techniques of rationality discussed on this site. The PL worldview, however, is more deeply committed to dark side epistemology (though I imagine that that could be a controversial position even here).
Seriously, though, what is SWPL?
:D
This is some of the best short political satire I’ve ever read!
Stuff White People Like.
Agreed, the subculture in question seems fairly innocuous in itself. It needs infiltration and purging of dangerous aspects, not external opposition (fortunately, we seem to already have many inside agents).
You seem to have deciphered the initialism, what does it refer to?
Stuff White People Like—steven0461 got it right.
Stuff White People Like.