(In general: looking at your current behavior here and on twitter, you might be beginning to spiral around full-crank mode right now. You’ve seen it happen to me several times; I know what signs to look out for. Take heed, and go have some fun/work on stuff/etc before returning to political back-and-forth.
This is not to take a cheap shot at or dismiss any ideas behind whatever you’ve been arguing in this time—they deserve proper disagreement and taking apart IMO—just a warning that their direction might be getting a bit monomaniacal.)
I hope you of all people notice when I do self-parody.
Unfortunately for you, it’s often hard for me (despite some practice) to see a clear distinction between sufficiently firm, unequivocally expressed far-right views coming from a modern Western person and self-parody. Unless it appears that the author really is far gone and needs sympathy and psychological help, not debate. (See e.g. Bruce Charlton, known Azathoth-worshipper.)
(But hey, I’m not discriminatory—I’d say the same about Stalinism ;))
Surprised this is at 24 karma considering it covers such basic arguments.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/9q5/on_saying_the_obvious/
(In general: looking at your current behavior here and on twitter, you might be beginning to spiral around full-crank mode right now. You’ve seen it happen to me several times; I know what signs to look out for. Take heed, and go have some fun/work on stuff/etc before returning to political back-and-forth.
This is not to take a cheap shot at or dismiss any ideas behind whatever you’ve been arguing in this time—they deserve proper disagreement and taking apart IMO—just a warning that their direction might be getting a bit monomaniacal.)
Thank you for telling me you think so, I consider your warning quite important evidence on whether I am going into such a spiral.
Please don’t take my twitter account too seriously tho, I mostly have fun there. I hope you of all people notice when I do self-parody.
Unfortunately for you, it’s often hard for me (despite some practice) to see a clear distinction between sufficiently firm, unequivocally expressed far-right views coming from a modern Western person and self-parody. Unless it appears that the author really is far gone and needs sympathy and psychological help, not debate. (See e.g. Bruce Charlton, known Azathoth-worshipper.)
(But hey, I’m not discriminatory—I’d say the same about Stalinism ;))