1/ Stefan Molyneux is a particularly strange case. First: Yes, he's a total ass hat racist, but of the "intellectual/philosophical" variety. I swear he wasn't always this way- back in the late 2000s he just had fringe views on anarchism as far as I knew. https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1277690914803077121 …
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2/ But now he posts stuff like this (just 16 hours ago!) https://twitter.com/StefanMolyneux/status/1277606076838535168 … That's pretty typical these days. That and extremely overt misogyny.
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3/ I imagine his evolution went something like this: Tried to make money talking about fringe philosophy. Started noticing a few controversial videos started getting a lot more clicks than others. Depending on clicks for money, his brain entered the same nasty feedback loop
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4/ that YouTube and Facebook algorithms do: Garbage conspiracy and hate content generates traffic. It's easier if you believe your own bullshit. I suspect he might- a lot of smart people talk themselves into really dumb things. It's easier to do that when it pays.
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It's insane to me that it was happening in the first place.
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