oh shit, that'd be very useful, yeah. @Theophite ?
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Replying to @iridienne @ArsonAtDennys and
Oh, okay, it's a public post. Or at least one is.pic.twitter.com/rOXGKcds55
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Replying to @iridienne @ArsonAtDennys and
What is wrong with these people
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Replying to @Casaubon20 @iridienne and
As a former member, we used to joke about being a cult. Apparently some of us weren't joking.
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Replying to @NicelySpunch @Casaubon20 and
It was always a cult. Literally always. The leadership was doing "ha ha only serious" and a lot, a LOT, of people fell for it. (I've been keeping an eye on LW and the various spinoffs for well over a decade now.)
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Replying to @iridienne @Casaubon20 and
Well, maybe so. I didn't come in under Yud, maybe he's always been like this. I spent time living in a rat house. I've *been* to Scott's house. I had good experiences with both, even though I do NOT want to defend Scott and am fully onboard with recontextualizing things.
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Replying to @NicelySpunch @iridienne and
Yudkowsky never hid it, he did the whole "ironic hyperbole" thing The Sequences literally do get treated like Scripture and he literally did say cringe shit like how he was the "sensei" of a "rationality dojo"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and
The reason Scott Alexander's star rose to outshine Yudkowksy's is Scott is pretty good at disarming people's initial suspicions about crankery He is very good at projecting the voice and affect of a "normal, regular guy"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and
His posts are so fucking long because he fills them with meandering aw-shucks I-dunno-what-I'm-talking-about qualifications and hedges, performing intellectual humility If you've watched Joe Rogan's show, he's basically Nerd Joe Rogan
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If you've ever been infuriated by Rogan's "Well, shit, I'm just a idiot, but it *seems to me*" shtick, then imagine just that in prose at much greater length with bigger words
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and
I find it disingenuous and annoying as fuck, but some people are into that shit, clearly Especially white people with a hunger for "unbiased" sources who, like them, are just curious about finding out the truth and aren't yelling about injustice all the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and
In any case, Yudkowsky is funny because he's like the mirror opposite of this He cannot slip on this rhetorical garment for even a few seconds, not even to save his life He's always up there on the balcony shouting "THESE ARE THE INSIGHTS OF A GENIUS" bare chest on full display
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