Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example

Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by justin66 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:33PM (#21876346)

I had the same thought. I'm a NYT subscriber and while I'm not always the most careful reader, it doesn't seem to me the paper covers Mormons who are not Mitt Romney nearly often enough for there to be a stereotypical take

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by invalidOrTaken on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:40PM (#21876630)

One can be extrapolated with eigenmorality though!

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by knzhou on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:54PM (#21876686)

You mean this idea?

> A moral person is someone who cooperates with other moral people, and who refuses to cooperate with immoral people.

It's just so naive. A slightly cleaned up version of ordinary tribalism: "we are good and they are bad", with no further justification. Anybody can claim their own tribe is the moral one this way.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by invalidOrTaken on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:19PM (#21876782)

Oh, I certainly agree. But a naive algorithm can be used to predict the opinions of the naive.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by knzhou on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:58AM (#21877319)

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you.

I was mostly reacting because I remember reading that blog post when it came out and thinking it was a neat idea, and now I'm recoiling in horror at how terrible it sounds.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by saagarjha on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:35AM (#21877231)

The article actually discusses this very argument, though in a slightly tangential way.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by justin66 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @10:54PM (#21876684)

I'm grimly curious as to whether or not you really think I'm going to read all that.

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Re:Do Not Trust Journalists – A Mormon Example by iron0013 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:32AM (#21877220)

This is the perfect and always perfectly accurate response whenever someone links to the Rational-sphere. On the other hand, why use few words when you could use—Jesus Christ—6,663 words instead?

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