Nice victim blaming: "You wore a revealing dress, can't complain about being raped." At no point did Scott make his real identity easy to find. He didn't make it extremely difficult, but that is not the same. 1/2
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Note that one reason why his identity was relatively easy to discover in one direction, was because people with a grudge tried to publicize it. There is an entire subreddit dedicated to sneering at the community. 2/2
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R/Sneerclub is a disappointingly dead subreddit unfortunately, and its existence isn't some kind of unique shocking event - subreddits are easy to make and any sufficiently high-visibility sub will have a hater sub opposing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
And the fact that people use the name of the sub as a gotcha is funny, considering the sub header contains in full the breathtakingly self-regarding quote from Eliezer Yudkowsky that it comes from
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
That the people who dislike him and find him worthy of repeated criticism constitute a "sneer club" characterized by "Dark Triad traits" etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NotoriousAapje and
Anyway, I lurk on r/Sneerclub and it was assiduously scrupulous about enforcing the rule of always referring to Scott by his handle and not his wallet name, precisely to avoid this largely unnecessary drama (because contrary to the hype "rationalists" are huge drama queens)
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@GeorgeHemingto1, we got a lurker of that subreddit you made2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @nathanoseroff @arthur_affect and
Oh I’m well aware, but I can’t take credit for starting it
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Replying to @GeorgeHemingto1 @nathanoseroff and
I just spend a lot of time taking out my personal frustrations on people there in my capacity as a mod
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Replying to @GeorgeHemingto1 @nathanoseroff and
I know a psychiatrist who might help with your anger issues :P
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Nah he stopped practicing because he can't treat patients who think he might be racist and these days that's a lot of people Oh well
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