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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect
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
They've gone through SO MANY iterations of this thing where they try to classify the human race into two parts, a smart part and a dumb part, and say they're in the smart part and that's why everyone is mad at them all the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
They keep coming up with new names for the same fucking thing - "high decoupler vs low decoupler", "mistake theorist vs conflict theorist"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
"Well I just have this special cognitive capacity of being able to argue about shit like it's a game without getting my feelings involved and apparently you don't so your being mad at me is wrong but understandable" Eat shit my dude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
My experience with the elevatorgate has shown me that, in practice, the ability to argue while pretending to be cool headed as a Vulcan only means that you are arguing from a position comfortable for you, even if it not for others. "Don't be a creep" was too much.
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Replying to @Dominic11B4 @perdricof
Elevatorgate was AMAZING in the sheer degree to which is proved these nerds were "low decouplers" and had no chill They seriously distorted the facts of the original incident into total unrecognizability in the heat of their wounded passion
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A ton of people describe the incident to this day as Watson "holding the guy up for public ridicule and shaming", even though she never named him nor gave any identifying information whatsoever
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