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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

      pic.twitter.com/7kreWj2tD7

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

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

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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. 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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    8. 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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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

      if only i repeat something often enough it will become true

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    10. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

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

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        5. 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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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

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

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        7. 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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        8. 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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        9. 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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        10. 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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        11. 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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        12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          im sorry will. were just enforcing discourse norms

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        13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          ww: "cade metz was just doing his job"

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        14. 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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        15. 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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        16. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          hope he sees this bro

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        17. 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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        18. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          its very strange to me im listening to journalists talking about how weird it is that people even IMAGINE the possibility that journalists deliberately try to go and crush people how fucking dumb do you think we are

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        19. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          tfwpic.twitter.com/yi7DxEmRww

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        20. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          point of orderpic.twitter.com/2gf78DO68X

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        21. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          man who was just fired for a joke tweet: "why was [scott] so fucking scared of people scouring his web site"

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        22. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          bob: "there may have been an overreaction that did not work in [the rationalists] favor in terms of how this piece came out" stop resisting

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        23. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          ww: STOP RESISTING

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        24. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          ww: the problem with rationalism is a lack of diversity. too many autists. this is a signal that rationalism is not attractive to everyone. different people would come to different conclusions than rationalists would

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        25. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          ww: if everyone is similar you are biased. *snap* the only way to become unbiased is to confront people with different views yes. well. consider this an exercise in such. and consider speaking with more nonjournalists about how they view your field

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        26. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          oh bob is very kind and suggests he would like to speak with more rationalists. I will create a thread to deal with this ask. my esteem of bob has risen overall in this conversation.

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        27. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Feb 16

          all right well that was unpleasant. thanks for tuning in.

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        28. End of conversation

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