Two potential counterexamples to keep in mind: (1) Yudkowsky’s pro-cryonics and generally anti-death stance, as evidenced in the “death panel” discussion (which hasn’t been posted yet, but his views are anyway familiar to regular readers of LW); and (2) J.T. Eberhard’s (very personal) discussion of mental illness, which (except for certain fashionable exceptions, and despite occasional rhetoric you may hear from time to time) actually remains quite low-status virtually everywhere, elite intellectual communities included.
Fair enough. Still, apart from these exceptions and the strictly non-ideological topics, the rest really does sound like a protracted scream of “Yay Greens! Down with Blues!”
Two potential counterexamples to keep in mind: (1) Yudkowsky’s pro-cryonics and generally anti-death stance, as evidenced in the “death panel” discussion (which hasn’t been posted yet, but his views are anyway familiar to regular readers of LW); and (2) J.T. Eberhard’s (very personal) discussion of mental illness, which (except for certain fashionable exceptions, and despite occasional rhetoric you may hear from time to time) actually remains quite low-status virtually everywhere, elite intellectual communities included.
Fair enough. Still, apart from these exceptions and the strictly non-ideological topics, the rest really does sound like a protracted scream of “Yay Greens! Down with Blues!”