florp
2yr ago
From what I've heard, senior figures in EA (Will MacAskill etc) knew him well for years, associated with him, and promoted him as a big success of EA.
florp
2yr ago
A blurb that says "I'm single and will entertain offers of dates from eligible men" sends this message too, with less ambiguity.
"I'm gay" is shorter. From everything you've said, I don't understand your issue with it?
florp
2yr ago
Canadian here. I don't quite understand what you're objecting to? You say that certain specific claims about residential schools are false (e.g. 215 kids established as buried in Kamloops). And that (2) isn't fully a result of (1). But I've never been under the impression that wearing an orange shirt implies you think otherwise.
What it does imply is that you think aspects of residential schools (and Canada's historic treatment of indigenous people) were very bad. Do you disagree with this? If so, then wearing an orange shirt would be misleading for sure. Otherwise it might even be valuable to consider whether the suggestion that you're contrarian is on the mark - contrarianism is an easy trap to fall into without realising it. (I've certainly fallen into it.)
florp
2yr ago
If "far right" were used to mean "not socialist" by the media, then the media would call non-socialist parties "far right".
If you're reacting in part to the emotional tone of my comment, then fair enough, I do have feelings about what's (in my personal perspective) happened to The Motte. So my phrasing is admittedly not emotionally balanced/level.
florp
2yr ago
By default, about 99% of mentions of the "far right" in the press means "not socialists".
Non-socialist parties which don't get the "far right" adjective in the press, off the top of my head (even using an inaccurately broad sense of socialism):
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UK, Conservatives
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UK, Lib Dems
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France, Macron's party
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France, Union of Democrats and Independents
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France, Republicans
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Germany, Christian Democrats
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Germany, CSU
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Germany, Free Democrats
And that's just the 3 biggest countries. I.e. every single major right-of-center party in these countries, excluding the French National Front.
Hence, your statement is false in a way that's clear to anyone with passing familiarity with the press.
(Meta-comment: another example of The Motte's descent into hysterical tribal right wing persecution complexes, and move away from Scott-style balanced, empiricial rationalism.)
New Yorker article on Feeld: A Hookup App for the Emotionally Mature.
I'm curious what reactions and discussion this sparks.
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