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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. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Feb 17
      Replying to @iridienne @ArsonAtDennys and

      More:pic.twitter.com/hCcuqysLwp

      3 replies 2 retweets 28 likes
    2. Casaubon‏ @Casaubon20 Feb 17
      Replying to @iridienne @ArsonAtDennys and

      What is wrong with these people

      5 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    3. Spunch Nicely‏ @NicelySpunch Feb 20
      Replying to @Casaubon20 @iridienne and

      As a former member, we used to joke about being a cult. Apparently some of us weren't joking.

      2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    4. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne Feb 20
      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.)

      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
    5. Spunch Nicely‏ @NicelySpunch Feb 20
      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      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"

      2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      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"

      1 reply 4 retweets 20 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      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

      2 replies 4 retweets 26 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and

      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

      1 reply 2 retweets 29 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      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

      3 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
      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

      5:31 PM - 20 Feb 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and

          EVEN WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT HOW RATIONALISM SHOULDN'T BE A CULT he sounds like he's leading a cult Even when he's preaching intellectual humility and caution he sounds like a reckless swaggering blowhard high on his own farts Google the Sequence about Ayn Rand, you'll see

          1 reply 2 retweets 17 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 20
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and

          One of the most revealing comment dust-ups I remember was one of his commenters saying "Look half the problem your community has is that Eliezer Yudkowsky is perceived as a community leader by everyone inside and outside of it, and he is a massively unlikable crank"

          2 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
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        2. Adam Shapiro‏ @zodiacwars_ Feb 20
          Replying to @arthur_affect @NicelySpunch and

          i remember reading EY's harry potter fanfic years ago and my biggest takeaway being "there might be some interesting scientific conceptualizations of magic in here but they are buried between way to much sheer contempt for anyone who is not an 'intellectual'"

          1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
        3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof Feb 20
          Replying to @zodiacwars_ @arthur_affect and

          honestly i appreciate that aspect of HPatMoR most there's a certain honesty to it the raging id of male entitlement burning across every page like SHERLOCK in that way except even less disguised

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
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