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This reads more like an anti-science meme. Things are complex, if you don't understand them fine, but keeping yourself deliberately ignorant isn't going to stop reality from being reality.
this is borderline.
there's a point where we can argue that the US has shit standards for food safety. and there's arguing that chemicals names are scary.
plus, he's a bit of a weirdo with the Rocco's Basilisk and his weird harry potter fanfiction
i assure you, there is much weirder harry potter fanfiction out there. i once read a Hogwarts Castle/Giant Squid smut fic.
Also, pretty sure a fellow named Roko came up with the basilisk, not Yudkowsky.
the Roko's basilisk was from his forum, true, not directly his idea, but hes sort of related.
he is just a guy that sometimes, I hear wierd stuff and then I am not surprised hes involved in that.
That harry potter fan fic is weird, because instead of smut or shipping, it's like what if Harry Potter was a humanist philosoper instead if a normal child with magic powers.
Was that Harry Potter and the methods of rationality?
I read the first dozen or so chapters maybe 10 years ago, until I realized that the total number of chapters approaches infinity and it got pretty boring after some time.
yes, that chapter count was indeed impressive
Maybe he's got a finer point, but it actually just looks like an argument against categorization. It's like saying I don't trust math about "triangles" or "scalene triangles" or "rhombuses" when you find out about the special properties of the equilateral triangle or the square.
The fact that there are differences between elements of a category does not eliminate the utility of the commonalities shared by elements of a category. It does limit that utility, yes.
For example, just because you are getting plenty of protein, if you somehow completely avoid one of the amino acids that the human body uses but can't synthesize, then eventually you will have some fairly specific health problems. That's not strong evidence that it's worth micromanaging your macronutrients by tracking your intake of all amino acids individually. (It might be; I haven't seen it studies either way.)
Maybe I'm missing some context, but I also get the "anti-science" vibe from the image.
I think it's a shit post about how he's been reading into the science and it is just way more complicated than what most people talk about.