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WaltGisnep

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WaltGisnep··on The killer product of robotics could be a low-cost collaborative manipulator
that's pretty fantastical
WaltGisnep··on The killer product of robotics could be a low-cost collaborative manipulator
My toaster cooks the bottom part of the toast way faster than the top part so I have to flip it partway through to get it even. Also it accumulates a ton of crumbs which I can never quite clean out, and sometimes some crumbs will get onto the heating element and the kitchen will smell like burning. Plus it's just not at all consistent even though it seems impossible for there to be so much variance with the same machine cooking the same bread on the same time setting.
WaltGisnep··on Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method
Asking me to show you seems like a troll question
WaltGisnep··on Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method
>The author’s foregone conclusion appears to be that since his conclusions are bad, so too must be his reasoning

I don't think that's accurate at all. She explicitly states that she's critiquing his reasoning and spends the vast majority of the essay doing that.

Although it's worth pointing out that a conclusion being incorrect is good evidence for either the reasoning or the premises of an argument being incorrect.

WaltGisnep··on Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method
Ironically, you haven't actually fairly described or interacted with the points of this person you disagree with. And you even quoted them out of context to misrepresent them as not providing quotations of Scott openly advocating eugenics, when they did exactly that just a few paragraphs after the line you quote.