Some people objected to my recent note, claiming that rationalists had nothing to do with r/TheMotte. So here’s a highly upvoted comment from r/SlateStarCodex (the ACX subreddit and parent-forum of TheMotte) from a rationalist, that’s even worse:
Foundational values are a political technology that lossily compresses ideology into something more memetic.
Listen, we already know you’re a racist, you don’t have to work so hard to make us hate you!
“when you control for applicant qualifications discounted for affirmative action, there is no net racial discrimination in the ___ sector”
I’m not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying “if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination”?
Listen, we already know you’re a racist, you don’t have to work so hard to make us hate you!
I’m not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying “if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination”?