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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      The whole rationalist terminology of being a "high decoupler", capable of stripping an arbitrary amount of context from a situation until you can treat it as an abstraction Like this is an intellectual SKILL and not a DEFICICIENCY, like it doesn't make you FUCKING STUPID

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      NOTHING BAD HAPPENED TO SCOTT ALEXANDER IN COLLEGE He said something that pissed people off, and they said they were pissed off at him -- an expression of free speech His life was not destroyed, everything was not taken from him, he is fucking FINE

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      Just like NO ONE DID ANYTHING TO SCOTT AARONSON His lengthy complaint was about people NOT DOING things to him (noticing him, dating him, having sex with him) while admitting that this wasn't even a conscious choice, he was just too shy to ask people out

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      And he has the motherfucking GALL to compare this to someone having one of the most blatantly physical things a person can do to someone else done to them Christ How do you even start to engage without screaming

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      Kate Manne went viral among the popular press for coining the term "himpathy" for this kind of shit The Scotts are like walking talking posting flesh-and-blood avatars of "himpathy" If she knew who they are she could've given it a different name, like "bescottedness"

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      Look Yeah I get that if you really sit down and open a vein you can write not just 20,000 words but 200,000 or two million about all your trauma I could do it too If you gave everyone the tools to do so, EVERYONE could do it

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      Everyone has an infinite amount of performance of pain in them if you give them the tools and the motivation to express it It reproduces itself as naturally and instinctively as expressions of triumph and joy Lacan, the discourse of the hysteric, look it up

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      At the end of the day, SO THE FUCK WHAT A "rationalist" should understand that all this performance and self-pity and poetry doesn't somehow let you skip the question of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED I don't care what you FEEL happened, what DID happen

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      And you cannot judge pain by the VISIBILITY of pain (as shown in studies that show that with actual doctors evaluating actual physical pain in a clinical setting, the pain of Black people is literally invisible)

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      You cannot judge the depth or reality of pain by whether it produced a great work of fucking literature (or even a hacky but popular work of literature like "Untitled" is) That's not determined by anything but the writer's access to education and a well-connected audience

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

      That's how we ended up with half the history of Western literature being wealthy aristocratic men going around punching down at everyone they see, then writing beautiful poetry whining about their chronically sore knuckles

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          And Scott absolutely will not stop with this shit He is absolutely shameless about his endless amounts of empathy for whomever the fuck he naturally feels like empathizing with, and then just deleting the experiences of everyone else from his awareness like he never saw them

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          (IIRC this is what happened the time one of his commenters diagnosed him with schizoid personality disorder, this deeply inappropriate reaction to a patient he described where he gets actively angry that "This person's story makes NO SENSE to me, I don't GET IT")

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          I wish I'd saved more receipts from the old days on Scott's blog because they were all over the fucking place 2013/14 Scott, before he really got famous, was much more forthright about his "controversial" takes

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          He tried to play the "himpathy" card for *Donald Sterling*, the Clippers owner who was forced by NBA rules to sell his team for being blatantly racist "And I'm sure just because he's a wealthy white man means it's okay for him to lose everything over a private conversation?"

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          YES He didn't "lose everything", he got paid MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to get him to retire from a job he was TERRIBLE AT

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        7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          A job that has only two responsibilities -- be the public face of the team and make good business decisions -- that he still had after DECADES of being the universally reviled face of the worst-performing team in the NBA

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        8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          I'm just remembering all this shit now, and I don't care enough to trawl through archives for receipts, so you can take this as "Arthur making shit up about Scott" if you want and fuck off Did you know he did a post back in the day arguing at length there's no rape culture?

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        9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          "Rape is actually treated with far more seriousness than other crimes in our culture You say victim-blaming is a barrier to reporting rape, but my buddy got his bike stolen last year and EVERYONE blamed him for not securing it well enough and NOBODY stood up for him"

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        10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          HE SAID THIS ON A PUBLIC POST AND PEOPLE PRAISED HIM FOR IT

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        11. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          He and his fans think he's a fucking genius because he just DOESN'T THINK ABOUT SHIT that any fucking dumbass on the street KNOWS YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT "You just compared being raped to having your bike stolen" "Well that's not relevant to the logic of the analogy"

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        12. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          "High-decoupling" The two Scotts were OBSESSED with finding other shit to compare rape to, so they could get out of the fucking obvious and intuitive conclusion that women getting raped way more than men means women objectively have it worse than men

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        13. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          "Isn't it symmetrical, that people fucking you when you don't want them to fuck you is how women are harmed by patriarchy, and people NOT fucking you when you DO want them to fuck you is how men are harmed by it" How do you not punch yourself in the face as soon as you say this

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        14. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Scott Aaronson, with his trademark lack of self-awareness, posted his thing comparing incels to beggars dying for lack of food and people being unwilling to give them bread in public But like everything else this is an opinion the other Scott shares, at great length

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        15. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Did you know that back in the day before he started Slatestarcodex, Scott Siskind wrote an LJ post about how he "finally understood how women feel about dating" after he'd been on a trip to India? Because women are the equivalent of wealthy Americans and men are beggars?

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        16. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Saying that as soon as he walked out of the airport he was surrounded by filthy poors demanding to sell him stuff, do simple tasks for him, show him around, angrily claiming he owed them a dollar just for making eye contact with them And he felt violated and scared

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        17. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          "Wow, these people really really want to get their hands on American currency I'm worried some of them might actually get desperate enough to jump me for it This must be how a hot girl feels when she rolls up to the club and the creeps all swarm on her hoping to touch a boob"

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        18. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          It's the kind of thing that sounds very empathetic and insightful if you're part of his target audience of privileged dorks who are proud of what dumb "decoupling" shitheads they are

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        19. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          It only makes sense if you focus COMPLETELY on how his own EXPERIENCE of being a wealthy tourist FEELS to him like being a hot girl LOOKS to him And didn't expend a single watt of brainpower on how the poor beggars or the hot girl's life actually feels most of the time

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        20. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          That no, not knowing how you're going to pay rent or buy food and water or keep your children safe is NOT, AT ALL, like a lonely techbro's desire to have a girlfriend and get laid except in the barest, most primitive sense that both things are "strong human desires"

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        21. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          And that no, being sexually attractive IS NOT the same as having monetary wealth, or like having any kind of asset separate from your body and your person that you actually can give to somebody else

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        22. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          If Scott had, rather than performatively exercising his empathy muscles during his "What I did on my vacation" essay, read a fucking book There have been reams of poetry and literature, both popular and highfalutin, about exactly this

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        23. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          "If there were a way to give him what he hungrily seeks when I see his eyes meet mine, if there were a way to fill that void inside him so that he could know peace, so I could know peace But it cannot be done It is like trying to empty the sea"

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        24. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          Or if he, you know, watched TV Wanda Sykes put it pretty bluntly in a comedy special she did around this time "You ever wish you had a detachable pussy? So you could just take it off and be like 'Here, knock yourself out' 'Wash it before you give it back to me'"

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        25. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          God I'm so fucking mad about this It's not just a bad evil opinion, it's a STUPID bad evil opinion He gets all this credit for being smart and insightful for NOT THINKING OF THINGS and NOT SEEING THINGS his audience would also rather not see

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        26. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          This inverted incentive structure where if you bury it under enough big words and florid rhetoric you can make ignorance sound like wisdom, if it's something people really want to ignore "Wow, why did *I* never think of just saying 'But what if there is no racism'"

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        27. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          ("Against Murderism" is literally an essay saying at length "Hey what if racism just isn't a thing" "You Are Still Crying Wolf" is an essay SPECIFICALLY saying "Hey can you PROVE that Donald Trump, in particular, is racist" Fucking universe-brain horseshit)

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        28. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          It's not just that I consider him fundamentally offensive, although I do It's that this shit is fundamentally poison and it's all over the place in the techbro culture that's taking over our world Not just unwillingness but *inability* to fucking *listen* to anyone unlike you

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        29. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          It is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to take seriously this idea well-paid white male cishet software engineers -- who mostly do have active sex lives and brag about it -- are some kind of oppressed class, unless you carefully and deliberately construct this wildly narcissistic worldview

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        30. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          This contrarian use of rhetoric and analogy to fuck with your basic moral intuitions that were, in fact, correct from the start "Let me explain to you in 20,000 words how rich white men COULD be the same as poor Black women, and make you think it made you smarter not stupider"

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        31. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20

          They say he's teaching empathy and insight but he's teaching the exact opposite He's giving you a toolkit to never again have to care about someone other than yourself The Scott-Alexander-tm patented Rhetorical Reversal Device

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