Who decided that skeptism of popular beliefs should be associated with low social status and prosecuted mercilessly? Who decided that “misinformation” was better combated by censorship than by discussion
I’ve read that in the past, it’s a good point and I largely agree with it. I support gatekeeping, but what that allows you to do is to have a pocket of something which is different from its surroundings, an isolated reality so to speak. Without gatekeeping, everything tends towards the average.
But the qualities that you’re here attributing to the garden is actually filth from the outside. Appeal to authority and popularity is a kind of status game and intellectual laziness. And it’s a fact that censorship is less effective effective than free discussion at arriving at the correct belief. It’s a good way to minimize conflict, but I don’t think that’s what this community is actually about.
Don’t confuse politics/cultur war and rationality. You may not know this, but the “ostracization is free speech” worldview has only been popular for perhaps 10 years, and it was made popular solely by online liberal communities as they became the local majority (due to the parent companies becoming political). “Tolerance” is also being redefined to support bias rather than being a metric for the absence of bias, all so that a majorit can bully a minority
Eliezer Yudkowsky: Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
I’ve read that in the past, it’s a good point and I largely agree with it. I support gatekeeping, but what that allows you to do is to have a pocket of something which is different from its surroundings, an isolated reality so to speak. Without gatekeeping, everything tends towards the average.
But the qualities that you’re here attributing to the garden is actually filth from the outside. Appeal to authority and popularity is a kind of status game and intellectual laziness. And it’s a fact that censorship is less effective effective than free discussion at arriving at the correct belief. It’s a good way to minimize conflict, but I don’t think that’s what this community is actually about.
Don’t confuse politics/cultur war and rationality. You may not know this, but the “ostracization is free speech” worldview has only been popular for perhaps 10 years, and it was made popular solely by online liberal communities as they became the local majority (due to the parent companies becoming political). “Tolerance” is also being redefined to support bias rather than being a metric for the absence of bias, all so that a majorit can bully a minority