You forgot something: Eugine holds that anyone who disagrees with these views is insufficiently rational and doesn’t belong on Less Wrong.
He decided at one point that there were too many such irrational people, and engaged in a mass-downvote campaign to punish his ideological enemies; he was banned for this, and keeps coming back, like a sad dumb little puppy who can’t understand why he gets punished for shitting on the carpet.
I’m curious; did you choose that analogy on purpose?
Anyway: yes, I agree, I think Eugine thinks that lack of enthusiasm for bigotry ⇒ denial of biological realities ⇒ stupid irrationality ⇒ doesn’t belong on LW, and that’s part of what’s going on here. But I am pretty sure that Eugine or anyone else would search in vain[1] for anything I’ve said on LW that denies biological realities, and that being wrong about one controversial topic doesn’t by any means imply stupid irrationality—and I think it’s at least partly the personal-vendetta thing, and partly a severe case of political mindkilling, that stops him noticing those things.
[1] And not only because searching for anything on LW is a pain in the (ahahahaha) posterior.
I’m curious; did you choose that analogy on purpose?
Not in that regard, no. I’m actually vaguely in favor of the Sad Puppies, as I think that Larry Correia has some significant points, although I think, as with Correia, that the point was already made, and at this point I regard it as largely a political exercise.
Which is to say, I agree with the original purpose of demonstrating that there is a bias at play (given the staunch denials that such a bias existed), but have little interest in their efforts at fighting the bias. I don’t care about the award, I don’t care who it goes to; it was never a selling point to me, and never will be.
The Rabid Puppies… I find boring and childish. They hopped on the bandwagon entirely to piss off people they enjoy pissing off.
“You have refused death,” said Dumbledore, “and if I destroyed your body, your spirit would only wander back, like a dumb animal that cannot understand it is being sent away.”
You forgot something: Eugine holds that anyone who disagrees with these views is insufficiently rational and doesn’t belong on Less Wrong.
He decided at one point that there were too many such irrational people, and engaged in a mass-downvote campaign to punish his ideological enemies; he was banned for this, and keeps coming back, like a sad dumb little puppy who can’t understand why he gets punished for shitting on the carpet.
I’m curious; did you choose that analogy on purpose?
Anyway: yes, I agree, I think Eugine thinks that lack of enthusiasm for bigotry ⇒ denial of biological realities ⇒ stupid irrationality ⇒ doesn’t belong on LW, and that’s part of what’s going on here. But I am pretty sure that Eugine or anyone else would search in vain[1] for anything I’ve said on LW that denies biological realities, and that being wrong about one controversial topic doesn’t by any means imply stupid irrationality—and I think it’s at least partly the personal-vendetta thing, and partly a severe case of political mindkilling, that stops him noticing those things.
[1] And not only because searching for anything on LW is a pain in the (ahahahaha) posterior.
Not in that regard, no. I’m actually vaguely in favor of the Sad Puppies, as I think that Larry Correia has some significant points, although I think, as with Correia, that the point was already made, and at this point I regard it as largely a political exercise.
Which is to say, I agree with the original purpose of demonstrating that there is a bias at play (given the staunch denials that such a bias existed), but have little interest in their efforts at fighting the bias. I don’t care about the award, I don’t care who it goes to; it was never a selling point to me, and never will be.
The Rabid Puppies… I find boring and childish. They hopped on the bandwagon entirely to piss off people they enjoy pissing off.
Reminds me of: