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I mean if everybody has a super-smart personal assistant in their home, who thinks independently, why would they need or want a ruling class, when we can simply have democratic socialism?
I was not aware that there is an Atlas Shrugged-length Harry Potter fanfiction about rationality. Learn something new every day!
YMMV. I tried to finish it based on a strong trusted recommendation, but could not get past the insufferable author-inserts, and the unpleasant and unbelievable hero character.
2. I like hearing rationalists describe “demon summoning is easy, Angel summoning is hard.” Genuinely curious about that.
I was not aware that there is an Atlas Shrugged-length Harry Potter fanfiction about rationality. Learn something new every day!
YMMV. I tried to finish it based on a strong trusted recommendation, but could not get past the insufferable author-inserts, and the unpleasant and unbelievable hero character.
I got caught up by the multiple times the main character made sweeping assessments of things with insufficient information, and just happened to be right by accident (or author fiat I guess). The main characters figure things out by Thinking Really Hard, and experimentation is only ever done to prove they were right all along to other characters.
That's an arrogant character who keeps falling into the right answer, not a scientist.
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YMMV. I tried to finish it based on a strong trusted recommendation, but could not get past the insufferable author-inserts, and the unpleasant and unbelievable hero character.
What's the name of it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_o...
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The first statement is categorically false or otherwise implies the author's engaging in "no true Scotsman" fallacy; and, in the second quote, how he can disentangle biological from cultural and social causes with such absolute conviction is mystifying. Stating opinions as facts in such a way is a kind of sophistry, and ironically this tendency limits one's ability to reach deeper truth.
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Thanks for sharing that reference. I started out being intrigued, but he totally lost me with some pretty unsubstantiated absolutist statements, e.g. "anyone smart and independent-minded will have views on race and sex well outside the liberal mainstream" and "men are sure to be a disproportionate share of leaders for biological reasons". The first statement is categorically false or otherwise implies the author's en…
>Women will never make up a significant portion of self-made billionaires or outstanding philosophers, but they can get a majority of BAs. Academia practices affirmative action in everything from admissions to journal submissions and citations practices, artificially reducing the natural male advantage at higher levels of ability.
For some more context: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Alexander#Race_and_IQ
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Thanks for sharing that reference. I started out being intrigued, but he totally lost me with some pretty unsubstantiated absolutist statements, e.g. "anyone smart and independent-minded will have views on race and sex well outside the liberal mainstream" and "men are sure to be a disproportionate share of leaders for biological reasons". The first statement is categorically false or otherwise implies the author's en…
He doesn't have to disentangle the two completely, he just strongly believes that there's a non-trivial biological contribution to these outcomes. Which already puts his views "well outside the liberal mainstream".