This sounds a lot like you are lazily slandering someone in order to avoid having to treat them as a human being. I'm open to Scott being a dirty eugenicist. I haven't read his whole blog, just parts of it. Make the case for real.
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Yes, that's what a low-decoupling conflict theorist does, keep up
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Arthur Chu Retweeted Aster, internet archaeologist
If you're actually interested in receipts someone with more time than me to go through the laborious process of indirectly searching shit on http://archive.org has done sohttps://twitter.com/RiotAtArbys/status/1275505026824273922?s=19 …
Arthur Chu added,
Aster, internet archaeologist @ArsonAtDennys@AcausalG@davidgerard@RationalWiki Any of y’all want to do a separate thread on these or should I? Remember the ones? Pretty sure they’re on http://archive.org This was a “well aCtUaLLy the data shows the black race commits more crimes so it’s highly logical etc etc” https://twitter.com/ArsonAtDennys/status/1275504294796636166 …3 replies 14 retweets 113 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung
But, in general, I don't think it's possible to be passingly familiar with Scott's blog and not know that one of his hobbyhorses is "IQ realism" and biological determinism, and the distance between this and eugenics is at best a hairsbreadth
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what i think outsiders don't get about these people is the degree to which they're driven by a formative emotional experience, one i and many others share: finding your people
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
the experience of being painfully smart and painfully lonely in hs, then one day, in college or on the net, finding other nerds who are smart like you and lonely like you and have weird sf interests like you
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and it just finally clicks: you have found your people. and they're *different* and *better* than all those idiots you grew up with (and still interact with, at work or with your family or whatever).
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
and then all this ideology comes after that, bayesianism, effective altr*ism, the singularity, decoupling, etc but they're all just fancy ways of explaining how your people are special and others are dumb
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
sort of unsurprisingly, they're especially prone to "smart person syndrome:" being informed and knowledgeable about one topic and concluding that you're informed and knowledgeable about every topic, or at least you could be with a little googling
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because if you start every disagreement from the premise "i am right and you are dumb," you are going to be powerfully prone to motivated reasoning always trying to figure out why your "opponent" must be driven by Emotion instead of Reason like youhttps://www.sjshancoxli.com/post/2019/04/12/erisology-interrogated …
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The idea that "The person who is less emotionally invested in the topic and reacting less emotionally to being challenged is more likely to be right" is the most obvious, blatant fallacy in the world and they're fucking dripping with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Obligatory college humor sketchhttps://youtu.be/s4pxtiLR928
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
It's just another form of tone policing.
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