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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I realllly did not appreciate the degree to which people just lie about other people on the internet and it's just... taken as fact? For example: I often joke about throwing insane parties; I sometimes have joked about playing drug roulette, where ppl get a random drug 1/
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
- e.g. MDMA, shrooms, alcohol, adderall. I speculated on how we could possibly pull this off. It would be hard to disguise what drug you're taking, especially if drugs hit at different times? How do you disguise taste? It's not a feasible party at all. 2/
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@Aella_Girl
And somehow the rumor has spread that I *definitely have* thrown drug roulette parties? Like, there's people online who are confidently claiming that this is a thing I do, despite me going "no, I have not done this." I don't understand the incentives here. 3/
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@Aella_Girl
Like A) I would definitely be down to throw a drug roulette party if you could figure out how to get everyone high at the same time (and basic safety stuff like low doses, make sure everyone consents to the drug options), it's just logistically super difficult!
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
and B) I am regularly open about way more insane shit I do. Weird orgies, naked mask parties, I have helped host parties where people did psychedelics, parties that fuck with rules for behavioral norms, etc. - why would I be secretly trying to cover this up?
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@Aella_Girl
Most of the time when I see ppl blatantly claiming untrue things about me, I'm confused because they don't align with my own incentives at all. Like if you were me, it just wouldn't *make sense* to do the thing you're claiming I secretly did. They're obvs not thinking it through.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
So idk what's going on. I don't know if the strong claims are coming from people who are quite mentally unstable, and thus legitimately are experiencing some reality in which they hallucinated I did something insane? These are the hardest to understand.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
Most other claims come from people who are dramatically misrepresenting/downplaying/exaggerating an actual true thing that happened, and that's a level of delusion that I find to be much more predictable.
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pavedwalden
@pavedwalden
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@Aella_Girl
People like to feel like they're contributing to a conversation (or pile-on) by sharing something they 'know'. There are some 'facts' about Naomi Wu that people love to repeat whenever she comes up that are all 2nd or 3rd hand misunderstandings of old conversations.
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Andrew Wilcox
@awwx
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@Aella_Girl
(1) My speculation: Some people are basically unhappy with their lives: they don't feel attractive, loved, successful, etc. This is painful to think about, so they mostly avoid thinking about it.
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Superorganismic Nodule
@eschatropic
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@Aella_Girl
Those people are not incentivized to scrutinize their own statements, because most of the people they're speaking to won't. The incentive is to have something to say at all, which gains scraps of status. They likely don't strongly hold those statements as beliefs.