Lol is that what rationalist means?! I’ve been hearing this word a lot lately
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* Something formal in philosophy * People who take a strong philosophical inspiration from Yudkowsky's sequences * People who take an inspiration from the LW gestalt * People who may never have participated in the site in its heyday but are part of the cultural milieu (me)
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Usually when used pejoratively it's pointed at the second definition with the implication that they are slavishly devoted to Yudkowsky's views. This is rarely accurate.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @auderdy
I have yet to read a SneerClub-esque take that doesn't basically boil down to "the nerds figured out how to have social power and I'm very mad"
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err...I sometimes sneer a bit at Yud etc but not remotely because they have social power. They have, to a good approximation, none.
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disagree. Yud can write an email to [various SV names redacted, but not *only* who you might think] and get money for approximately anything he wants to do. that's social power
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @MorlockP and
that's fundraising anyone can fundraise social power is when you get people, large numbers of them, to behave as you would like them to
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyasupposedly and
well, "writing a check" is how person X wants person Y to behave, no? and it doesn't have to be large numbers - if I can get 1 guy to write a $100k check, that's similar to 100k writing $1 each
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly and
yes, certainly that particular instance of "behaving as you want them to" hadn't occurred to me, thanks
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it was a question, so no need to get snarky I am legitimately asking - in your conception of it - what sort of X can get Y to do a thing counts as social power and what doesn't voting? writing a check? making a statement in public?
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Replying to @MorlockP @sonyasupposedly and
you and sonya are operating with a different concept than I was, so rather than muddy the waters over terminology I'll just step back out of the conversation
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyasupposedly and
I'm not operating with any conception ; I have no opinion here and am trying to understand the various points of view
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