eh I agree it’s out of place and the alienation’s not worth the benefits, but I still think it’s mildly funny (similar to Eliezer’s random New Atheism potshots at religion, which as a modern reader feels childish and unnecessary, but mildly funny for all of that).
It’s been a long time since I read the sequences, but religion seems much more relevant to rationality—and especially to the historical process that lead to it—than Trump’s cranial contents are to bee welfare. Thinking about analogies from the sequences, this post seems much more apt.
Also, if we want more people cross posting good content, we will want to be cognizant that the Forum reader was not the original intended audience for crossposted material. So the cost/benefit analysis could be different for the original audience (although I suspect it was not materially different here).
My criticism is not specific to the forum at all; the claim is false and pointlessly alienating no matter where it is posted. Also, I don’t think we should allow people to ‘sneak’ poor behaviour into the forum via a backdoor.
This is false—humans have billions of neurons—and also seems completely pointless, achieving nothing except unnecessarily alienating some readers.
eh I agree it’s out of place and the alienation’s not worth the benefits, but I still think it’s mildly funny (similar to Eliezer’s random New Atheism potshots at religion, which as a modern reader feels childish and unnecessary, but mildly funny for all of that).
It’s been a long time since I read the sequences, but religion seems much more relevant to rationality—and especially to the historical process that lead to it—than Trump’s cranial contents are to bee welfare. Thinking about analogies from the sequences, this post seems much more apt.
Also, if we want more people cross posting good content, we will want to be cognizant that the Forum reader was not the original intended audience for crossposted material. So the cost/benefit analysis could be different for the original audience (although I suspect it was not materially different here).
My criticism is not specific to the forum at all; the claim is false and pointlessly alienating no matter where it is posted. Also, I don’t think we should allow people to ‘sneak’ poor behaviour into the forum via a backdoor.