Maybe you can help me unpack your original statement then.
Self aggrandizing: analytic people NEED to be self aggrandizing, they’re calibrated poorly on how much better they are than other people IME.
Tribalistic: you mean my statement is applause lights for LW beliefs? I didn’t think my point was totally obvious. I’ve been making an effort to say more things I consider obvious due to evidence that I’m poorly calibrated on what is obvious.
Straw manning: You say yourself that others think we are crazy. To say I am straw manning implies that I am attributing to others shoddy reasons for believing we are crazy. But evidence points to exactly that, most of the critiques of less wrong positions have been absolutely terrible, including the ones coming from scholars/academia*. If you have any material on this I’m always looking for more.
*If someone believes that each of the beliefs held by the average LW has low probability of being true then it is reasonable for them to conclude that the likelihood of them all being true simultaneously is abysmally low.
Maybe you can help me unpack your original statement then.
Self aggrandizing: analytic people NEED to be self aggrandizing, they’re calibrated poorly on how much better they are than other people IME.
Tribalistic: you mean my statement is applause lights for LW beliefs? I didn’t think my point was totally obvious. I’ve been making an effort to say more things I consider obvious due to evidence that I’m poorly calibrated on what is obvious.
Straw manning: You say yourself that others think we are crazy. To say I am straw manning implies that I am attributing to others shoddy reasons for believing we are crazy. But evidence points to exactly that, most of the critiques of less wrong positions have been absolutely terrible, including the ones coming from scholars/academia*. If you have any material on this I’m always looking for more.
*If someone believes that each of the beliefs held by the average LW has low probability of being true then it is reasonable for them to conclude that the likelihood of them all being true simultaneously is abysmally low.