I don’t think that Hanson is trolling so much as he’s choosing deliberately provocative subjects to pontificate frankly on (I think any definition by which this would be considered “trolling” is inappropriately broad.)
I do think that he does tend to treat a few concepts as hammers which turn everything else into nails, and often bases his arguments on shaky premises. I don’t think he has a very good sense of how far he can extrapolate before he’s basically speculating blindly.
Overcoming Bias can be interesting, but (as with the post on rape) I often feel that people like me (with left/feminist leanings) are being trolled.
I don’t think that Hanson is trolling so much as he’s choosing deliberately provocative subjects to pontificate frankly on (I think any definition by which this would be considered “trolling” is inappropriately broad.)
I do think that he does tend to treat a few concepts as hammers which turn everything else into nails, and often bases his arguments on shaky premises. I don’t think he has a very good sense of how far he can extrapolate before he’s basically speculating blindly.