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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

    all right i have company coming over but in the mean time im going to watch this enormity wherein robert wright interviews will fucking wilkinson about rationalism lfggggggggggg https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/61078 

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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson looks sad. defeated. a man exiled in iowa in mind as well as body

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ninety seconds in @selentelechia has begged me to put on headphones

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      4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        bob has no idea what the rationalists are. he is coming into this a blank slate wilkinson claims he has "been in it from the beginning" oh good Rationalism Expert

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      5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson: "yeah i was kinda trollin' em. its like giving a noogie to your cousin" bob: i do think about you as a rationalist type just god

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      6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson derailed immediately by the opportunity to lapse into some tiresome partisan bromides quite disappointing. like niskanen already fired you dude you can do something else with your life . . . is he drunk

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      7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        pic.twitter.com/7kreWj2tD7

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      8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson gets back on track and introduces scott with kind words. i appreciate this

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      9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "[cade metz] was obviously just trying to do some journalism . . . journalists see things differently than people who are not journalists" YES I SUPPOSE THEY DO

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      10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        bob and ww now congratulating themselves about being more rational than rationalists "theyre not in the same game im in"

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      11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "I dont think [metz] meant to characterize scott as fascist friendly. but scott nuked his blog because he was worried about people in his community being attached to them" yes who could imagine this ww just fixated on "journalists doing journalism"

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      12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "the new york times is one of the worlds premiere . . . institutions. its culture is devoted to not being biased. to objectivity . . . there is no sense in which someone who likes to talk about epistemology is more committed to uncovering the truth than a Real Reporter"

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      13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        if only i repeat something often enough it will become true

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      14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        "its ridiculous to think that someone who works for the new york times has it out for this niche blog"

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      15. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        long discussion of selection bias into the times and how this might be bad feels a bit desultory

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      16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        bob: "one allegation that has been made about nyt is that its suffused with woke sensibilities and perhaps scott's defenders are alleging this. [cites complaint from scott's response and calls it legitimate]" glad bob is pushing back

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      17. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "yes this is misleading and bad writing. but if we interpret it charitably we can remember that murray wrote the bell curve and scott agreed with him. so i guess it was shitty but it wasnt malice. . . . it wasnt a great article"

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      18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "ultimately this community is not telling its members that reaction isnt off the table"

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      19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson trying to get through an explanation of neocameralism bob ties it back to larry summers darkly humorous

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      20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        pausing at 43:45 to watch some anime ill continue in a bit

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      21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "we have to enforce norms about what its ok to say in public"pic.twitter.com/qE3KiFD4jc

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      22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        bob: "maybe rationalists are constitutively against reading the room" i think thats right and i think its beautiful

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      23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "and thats a slippery slope from liberal toleration of an unfettered marketplace of ideas to . . . right wing shit stirring" sir. shit stirring has no party

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      24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww now seems to be arguing that shit stirrers are MAKING the left be censorious and oppressive stop making me hit you etc

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      25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "this dude wanted to write a story. no ill will. [ . . . ] ok it seems no one actually knows what the rules are. [ . . . ] and scott just flips is fucking wig and kills his blog. and some of them try to cancel cade metz!!!!" can you imagine the gall

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      26. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        im sorry will. were just enforcing discourse norms

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      27. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "cade metz was just doing his job"

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      28. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        ww: "nyt could not think more of itself. its kind of unhumiliatable" generally speaking i find a strong positive correlation between an entitys self-regard and the ease of humiliating that entity and the nyt is a strong case study in this matter

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      29. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        bob: "i dont think [scott is] imagining that this was kind of a negative piece" ww: "but what happened to cade metz!!!!"

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      30. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        hope he sees this bro

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      31. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

        wilkinson is REALLY mad about people criticizing metz idk man i thought nyt was huge. i thought they didnt care this is actually somewhat satisfying to listen to

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