Why you should come to LambdaConf anyway

> It seems the most polite thing.

Nope, it's not polite, it's the most convenient thing for you.

> It’s certainly the most professional thing.

That phrase sucks. Whenever I hear it, I always interpret it as "Someone did something I didn't agree with, but I can't actually express a legitimate reason why they shouldn't do that."

e.g.

Programmer who never has any customer contact doesn't wear a suit to work - oh how unprofessional.

Someone has their job outsourced, can't be arsed to fly out to Bumfuck Nowhere to train the new people how to do his job - oh how unprofessional.

Customers of a conference object to giving their money to pay to listen to someone who thinks that a Monarchy would be better than Democracy, and that "Traditional sex roles are basically a good idea" - oh, how unprofessional of the customers!

If you have a legitimate reason to disapprove of someones actions you should be able to express it a lot more clearly than just calling them 'unprofessional'.

For the record - Moldbug/Yarvin wrote my favourite article on the internet: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/wolfr... But his lack of ability to see/predict the real world results of his actions, is totally consistent with his lack of ability to see the result of the policies he thinks we should be following.

And yes, people may be using their emotions to make a decision, rather than segmenting things perfectly and thinking about each of them separately with a coldly logical basis. Humans, eh?

TL;DR because he won't bring up politics or whatever he rambles about on his controversial blogs.