One of the reasons I deeply respect Scott Alexander is that he continues to resist the impulse toward tribalism, and continues to care about broader questions like "is this action one that you'd support if it were the other team doing it"?

One of the reasons I deeply respect Scott Alexander is that he continues to resist the impulse toward tribalism, and continues to care about broader questions like "is this action one that you'd support if it were the other team doing it"?

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/seems-like-targeting

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Is Scott posting anywhere besides the blog?

I don't think he is extremely liberal?

(Unless you mean classical liberal, in which case he certainly is up there though still I would not call him extreme)

It's hard to respect a guy as extremely liberal as he is

tribalism is where ppl in crypto go to die

Віталік, тільки ти врятуєш крипту

Gud words in the article: "If I ran the world, I would want newspapers to do the opposite of that - comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"

Easy to support but hard to do

I love a version of that question as a way to avoid pointless conversations with people who have no interest in a good faith discussion.

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