I can never decide if I hear Taleb speak in the voice of Hemingway or Hulk Hogan. Is there anyone else who does serious shitposting at an academic level? https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15 …
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Replying to @MimeticValue @slatestarcodex
No, that is sincereposting. Like Taleb, Scott Alexander is a paradigmatic thinker, which means he is willing to go out on a limb and sometimes be wrong, but he abides by a strict ethical code that involves kindness. Taleb loves to see certain parts of the world burn.
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Replying to @MimeticValue @slatestarcodex
Neither Taleb nor Scott Alexander consider it necessary to engage in preference falsification, which means that people that are not used to that might get angry at them and start throwing unsavory objects at them, but only Taleb actually enjoys that, while Scott is hurt.
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Can you expand on what's "preference falsification"?
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Human (normie) communication is mostly not about exchanging content but about negotiating social alignment. It follows that each communicator is incentivized to shape the message not by what they actually believe, but by what alignment (with peers and authority) they desire.
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Replying to @Plinz @MagpieMcGraw and
Basically, most human beings automatically lie about their true leanings, often even to themselves. This is so normal that it is expected, and when aspies don‘t do it, it is often interpreted as crudeness, obstinacy or worse. (Nerds tend to be bad at preference falsification.)
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Replying to @MimeticValue @Plinz and
Scott strikes me as moderately aspie but VERY empathic - the typical psychiatrist high V moderate M pattern. Taleb the reverse, but also a hard man from a hard land.
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I suspect that Scott is not very empathetic but extremely compassionate. That is consistent with how he describes his therapeutic practice. (Many aspies are compassionate but not empathetic.)
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Replying to @Plinz @MimeticValue and
I was using empathy to refer to cold mentalizing, as distinct from sympathy, but I take your point.
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