The reason I don't like this post is that I was sarcastically using Eliezer Yudkowsky's cringey terminology about "bad actors in information space" to describe myself ("mindkilled", "black robes", "Dark Arts", etc.) Today I'd just say "low-decoupling conflict theorist"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
It was unpleasant to have random channer chuds share screenshots of this post mocking me as though the terminology was something I'd invented or was using sincerely But that's the only thing that really pissed me off about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
If you think I should be ashamed of the fact that I have no interest in "the humble collective search for truth" as opposed to punching Nazis, you are completely wrong It's something I wish more people knew about me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
I'm on board with punching Nazis, actually. I just also want my models of the world to trend toward accuracy, if that's even possible.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
I want my model of the world to trend towards having nobody who threatens me or people I care about in it and I really don't give a shit about anything else As Karl Marx said, "The philosophers have described the world; the aim is to change it"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
We will just have to agree to disagree about the compatibility of those two aims.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
Look, I actually had this discussion AT THE TIME, with the mutual FB friend of me and Scott that led to this whole thing And in his very high-decoupling way he actually laid it out in very stark terms
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
"I just strongly believe in a divide between thoughts, speech and action If someone tells you 'I'm seriously doing research that might lead me to the conclusion I have to punch you, but I'm not convinced yet,' that's not a reason to punch them You can still have a discussion"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
And I'm just like What the fuck No, that statement so clearly disproves your point If someone tells you "I'm thinking of punching you, I think that might be justified," THAT IS A THREAT You don't fucking wait to respond to a threat, you take immediate action
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
There's definitely a divide between thought and action. Speech IS an action.
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Yeah Scott's stupid Kolmogorov thing about how we're all living in 1984 seems to equate thought with speech Like I have an absolute right to "think out loud" no matter how repugnant my thoughts are or else you're controlling my brain itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
Yeah, which is ridiculous. The point of thoughts is that NO ONE ELSE CAN SEE THEM. They are utterly, uniquely your own property; basically the only thing that is, inalienably, yours. As soon as you express them, they are reified, in the world, & other people get to have opinions!
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
"How dare you judge me for the things i say?" Um, that's how it's SUPPOSED TO WORK, Scott, i don't know how to break that to you?
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