The spread of the internet from niche nerd hobby to the most commonly used tool in America has brought a demand that it should be brought in line, and that the norms of elite thought be imposed.pic.twitter.com/HvmxGSy2w5
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The spread of the internet from niche nerd hobby to the most commonly used tool in America has brought a demand that it should be brought in line, and that the norms of elite thought be imposed.pic.twitter.com/HvmxGSy2w5
The problem is that the internet is, structurally, built for its original denizens. You can't actually crush the anonymous and dissenting speech. And this is *extremely upsetting* to the people who wield cultural power.
Charles Fain Lehman Retweeted Charles Fain Lehman
This is why, for example, they are upset that Clubhouse is voice only—less legibility = harder to regulate.https://twitter.com/CharlesFLehman/status/1359978685613420550 …
Charles Fain Lehman added,
This is also what the tropes about "misinformation" and "extremist views" are really about: the internet permits the dissemination of Unapproved Ideas, and those are part of a larger, if ultimately pointless, effort to erect a cordon saintaire
Charles Fain Lehman Retweeted
The entities that facilitate this effort are enormously powerful, wealthy, and democratically unaccountable. Which is why there's an effort to (perhaps unwittingly) destroy them. https://twitter.com/mims/status/1360584880132915205 …
Charles Fain Lehman added,
incidentally, the "scholar who closely follows and documents the Rationalists" Metz quotes, Elizabeth Sandifer, appears to do most of her work writing about, uh, Doctor Who.https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17928103.Elizabeth_Sandifer …
I'm reasonably certain its the same sandifer who wrote a) this blog post http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/neoreaction-rationalism-and-eliezer-yudkowsky/ … and b) this book, which was funded on kickstarter and self-published.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027287602/neoreaction-a-basilisk …
Nothing against self-published authors, I just don't think the NYT should be going to Doctor Who fanfiction writers for expert comment.
ugh, I should really write this essay, shouldn't I?
The subject of the NYT profile, Scott Alexander, consists Eliezer Yudkowsky his intellectual mentor Yudkowsky's most famous (self-)published work is a massive Harry Potter fanfic that also serves as his intellectual manifesto
If being a "fanfic writer" disqualifies you from being an "expert" this is an indictment of the whole "rationalist" community far more than its critics
Moreover it kind of makes obvious why it's hard to find someone willing to give "expert" testimony on this community you can't tar with this "What a nerd!" brush
I am personally certain that someone like Nikole Hannah-Jones could be much more effective at "taking down" Scott than someone like me IF Jones had spent years reading Eliezer and Scott's bullshit on the Internet However, she has had other things to do
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