{"id":73241,"date":"2012-08-12T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17754"},"modified":"2012-08-12T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T20:25:16","slug":"on-my-perceived-disagreements-with-sam-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/12\/on-my-perceived-disagreements-with-sam-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"On my perceived disagreements with Sam Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/the-scourging-of-sam-harris\/#comment-149565\">below asked me to exposit in more detail<\/a> what I only alluded to in my post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/08\/the-scourging-of-sam-harris\/\">The scourging of Sam Harris<\/a>, when it came to <strong>substantive disagreements<\/strong>. The reason I did not elaborate much in the post is because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samharris.org\/blog\/item\/wrestling-the-troll\">Sam Harris&#8217;<\/a> original contribution had more to do with the deficits of interacting on the internet, and being routinely mischaracterized and having your reputation smeared. In this area I&#8217;m in close agreement with Harris, as I&#8217;ve experienced many of the same things. I suspect part of it is that like Harris, and unlike many internet commentators, I don&#8217;t really exist within a relatively tidy social-ideological bubble. My <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/tag\/reader-survey\/\">readership spans the ideological gamut<\/a>, and though I&#8217;m personally on the Right, I don&#8217;t have much of a problem posting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/01\/social-conservatives-have-a-lower-i-q-probably\/\">material<\/a> which those on the Left may find congenial to their self-image (which naturally results in the tendency for random conservatives to term me a &#8220;liberal blogger,&#8221; totally unaware that I&#8217;m often a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/19\/us\/19beliefs.html?_r=1\">token conservative<\/a> in science and secular circles). I&#8217;m not a contrarian, as much as I don&#8217;t really care too much about politics. People may remember Richard Feynman 1,000 years from now. They will &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/n2rRs9VUpgA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader below asked me to exposit in more detail what I only alluded to in my post, The scourging of Sam Harris, when it came to substantive disagreements. The reason I did not elaborate much in the post is because Sam Harris&#8217; original contribut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,2092],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-sam-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73241"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73371,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions\/73371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}