The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Yes, authoritarians are very tricky. They subvert all manner of accusations.

they really only have one, at the bottom of the critical regress "no, you see, *everything* is authoritarian, so i'm excused when i do it to you" and people who *oppose* authoritarianism? "well, they take my freedom to be an authoritarian, so are at most hypocrites"

Then you've foretold your own future.

yeah, by historically necessary conditions, you've predicted the right side of history

Have you read Yudkowsky?

enough to be aggravated by his lack of reflexive criticism

Ok, well the two Yudkowksianisms that are relevant here are: 1. It's fallacious to assume people with different opinions have extraordinary character 2. The amount of evidence required to raise a theory to the level of attention is already most of the proof of a theory

not sure how 1 has bearing, but i can address 2 (because it relates to his naive induction) positive evidence has no bearing on the validity of a theory- so a *bunch* of evidence doesn't prove *anything*- it's *thwarted expectations* that *always* raise things into awareness