to me that's one of the biggest red flags that it is, in fact, a cult we're not just talking about epistemic closure, but social closure indeed a sort of social closure specifically encouraged by all this talk of the Rational Elect and the irrational masses
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so that forth, after being repeatedly sexually assaulted, after having her attempts to do anything about that sexual assault rebuffed and discounted, couldn't just go be with a normie friend could no longer even see a life outside the cult which left her a single grim choice
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The "rationalist community" lies about a lot of things it advertises itself as The whole being-rational thing most of all, of course, but also the idea that it's radically egalitarian and the old -isms don't apply there And the idea it's a haven for neurodivergence
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A lot of the smears on Kathy Forth after her death were just a civil, polite, carefully worded version of the old "bitch be cray" That people generally disliked her and felt uncomfortable around her because she seemed disturbed and overly intense and whatnot
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And it's like yeah Okay, sure, Kathy Forth was neurodivergent to a degree that impaired her functioning and suffered some pretty serious mental illness She openly admits to all that right away in her note No one could possibly contest that
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Scott's "priors" are "Because of that, her brain just randomly made up horrible shit about perfectly innocent men who did nothing to her"
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His Bayesian inference is this is more likely than her story -- "Because of that, predatory men everyone thought were upstanding members of the community found her an easy target, and their friends were instantly inclined to help them cover up what they did"
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This is because Scott's priors are shit because he is shit (in a way that makes it extremely disturbing he's a practicing mental health clinician) And he's utterly mired in his own pathetically obvious cognitive biases about "nerds" and shit
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Imagine an alternate-universe version of this note that said "I'm a severely autistic girl who's bad at social cues and highly insecure But I happen to be conventionally pretty/hot so I got in with this clique of popular athletes and cheerleaders in high school"
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"And then a lot of those guys, because they were adept at social manipulation and had a lot of social status, saw me as an easy target and repeatedly abused me while everyone around them covered it up"
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"I was shocked by how blatantly these 'normal' people just lie to make themselves comfortable I realized that these 'normies' everyone respects so much are hypocrites whose worldview is based on social tribal signaling and not rational at all"
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"And because, despite myself, I was so attached to the status I felt I had by being close to cool athletic charming football players, I couldn't deal with the sense of betrayal and loss of identity from losing that, so I killed myself" Would Scott reject *this* story?
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I suspect not, because for all his issues with women I still think his biggest "cognitive bias" is his deep loathing and fear of an imaginary thick-necked troglodytic "jock bully" wearing a letterman's jacket played by Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future (1985)
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