rationalists are in the news For Some Reason
earlier, @cademetz asked and failed to interview (ex? post?) rationalist @QiaochuYuan for the hit piece published today because my god who would talk to cade metz
but QC had things to say and does so here:https://soundcloud.com/user-557955426/episode-12-eigenrobot-vs-the-new-york-times …
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Can we come up with a new label that just refers to "people who were super pissed off about the whole NYT-SSC thing" and just have that be the Schelling-identity that unites rats and postrats?
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Replying to @moridinamael @GeniesLoki and
what about non rats who are also pissed
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Replying to @Rididelduol @moridinamael and
I'm confused about what is or isn't a rat, post-rat, rat-adj. If I have a lot of similarities with members of these groups, isn't that sorta membership? I only dabbled in SSC and found the sequences kinda boring (maybe bc I'm old/exp?) *wondering about your non rat claim*
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its pretty arbitrary and also basically anyone who has even uttered the term "postrat" is in some sense a postrat
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