The Ethereum community having worries about the rationalist idea of "politics is a mind-killer".
My take is that @VladZamfir kind of has a point. The rationalists went with "no politics plz!" and then got substantially infiltrated and taken over by a certain political strain.https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/1101678279399034881 …
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This political strain had secret banlists banning people from certain rationalist-associated community events based on political orientation, and they gobbled up all the leadership positions to make it happen.
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Replying to @jprwg
No, not publicly. But I promise that something that vaguely fits this is true. I can't home in more exactly without taking too much personal risk.
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Replying to @RokoMijicUK @jprwg
I think the psychology is much less conspiratorial than you're making it sound? (Which doesn't make a difference as to its effects.) One of those irregular verbs—he's a complete asshole; you're a bit of an edgelord; I'm being discriminated against because of my beliefs.
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Replying to @zackmdavis @jprwg
If the beginning of a process is "politics is the mind killer" and the end is ideologically motivated banlists then someone got screwed no matter how you frame it
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not clear to me why you think the latter happened because of the former instead of despite the former
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at the very least it didn't work!
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depends on how bad the problem would otherwise have been
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"Ok guys, we're all honest so let's leave our doors open." "OMG you robbed me!" "Well I would have robbed you even more if we hadn't decided to be honest at the beginning"
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Does "politics is the mind killer" more imply "we will ignore politics" or "we will ruthlessly shut politics down" though?
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