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One of my favorite quotes re: the classics: "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

Would these letters be The Federalist Papers?

Coincidentally was just chatting about this to my wife. All of my productivity pretty much stems from blocking distraction. Rarely has the work been hard in itself. Sure I’ve been …

> In the real world, however, votes tend not to be politically coherent. Instead, what we see in a hyperpartisan polity, is that a diverse set of views collapses after an issue ach…

Ironically this seems another perfect example of the tribalism the article is about, saying: - the right-leaning folks were just propagandized - the left-leaning folks were justifi…

The idea here is that some percentage of "the left" and "right"'s views are arbitrary, so the chances of someone independently coming up with a perfectly matching set to either sid…

yeah fair, I added an explanation that each point is an average

I actually wonder this constantly, hence the footnotes about wondering what my tribe is, accounting for being wrong in probabilities, and even the purpose of this post: finding peo…

Hmm maybe I'm misunderstanding, but each red dot represents the average of a collection of views The idea behind PG's article (as I understand it) is that "the left" and "right" ha…

the difference is the person stabbing of their own independent accord can be convinced to stop the tribe-following stabber cannot

That's not what this is saying at all. "Understand my argument" does not imply correctness in the slightest. It's possible to understand an incorrect argument and show where it's g…

This entire argument is based on incorrect assumptions. I'm not just inferring this from different values. As I said in the article, people are openly and literally telling me they…

Neopets, created an account around 2nd grade. Eventually learned HTML to spruce up my profile. Then discovered running a “mall” to earn Neopoints and so I handcrafted a banner in M…

yep exactly

I'm not claiming moral high ground, or that my method is a better or happier way of living life, I'm only claiming it's better for finding out what's true, with the assumption some…

I wrote about a lack of desire to find truths, not getting opinions en-masse from groups, and a method to find them very different

the idea's that we're so tribal these days (maybe it's always been like this) that it's largely impossible but here's how we can change that, etc

ty!

curious where you moved? I completely understand it could not have what we're looking for, which is why this was only one component among larger ones (family + new job)

> If that hypothesis is true, then probably the best thing for society is to provide cultural structures that let us indulge than impulse in non-harmful ways, instead of, say, givi…

> In that case who you think is the "least worst" is also a reflection of values perceived values -- if someone has the same values and rankings as you, but was exposed to differen…

and if someone opposite the aisle from you believes the same thing about you, there's zero chance to flip them with direct discussion about values, it's possible basically all come…

I reject this idea, someone voting for the "least worst candidate" does not wholly endorse everything they stand for As someone said in this thread, in the US two-party system, coa…

this is actually in the footnotes and addressed by the "thinking in bets" section "[9] Fully understanding I can be the one in the wrong -- however, when this is the case, the pers…

it was a joke, didn't think I'd have to explain but the key difference is I'm open to being convinced this view is wrong