I appreciate efforts like this of @slatestarcodex to document and create histories of thought in of internet culture and subculture
this is the most important sort of intellectual history we have now and it feels no one is getting it all downhttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-online-culture …
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Replying to @eigenrobot @slatestarcodex
I was actually considering writing a post about where postrat came from, and then inhibited again by how much I really don't want to. But if I don't, nobody else is going to huh?
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Replying to @jd_pressman @slatestarcodex
I'd read it! honestly im curious how much of the history you know and what ive missed
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Replying to @eigenrobot @slatestarcodex
Most of the reluctance is because it would produce prodigious amounts of beef if written in a way that reflected how I really feel about the subject.
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Beef from truth is nutritious Beef from confusion makes us all bloated
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And that is precisely why I will ultimately end up having to write it, yes.
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Replying to @jd_pressman @michaelcurzi and
One spoiler is that I think SSC had a huge influence which isn't acknowledged nearly enough. If you binge the best SSC essays back to back (as I did to correct their typos and format them) you realize a lot of SSC is this slow deconstruction of 'rationality' in the EY sense.
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Replying to @jd_pressman @michaelcurzi and
Another spoiler is I think there's a motte and bailey going on where you have 'postrat is about the stuff Chapman talks about' discourse that is fake and then this weirder discourse where postrat is a bohemian hideout for ex-LWers of various flavors, which feels more accurate.
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the latter is definitely roughly true you're possibly missing some information on the specific social structure and media employed there was a core early group that was specifically into Chapman and a few others and I still think you're being unfair to or misreading him :/
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Yeah the core group that was hanging out in chatrooms in 2015 and stuff is basically just background, I don't know enough about it yet to want to talk about it on Twitter. I'd have to ask around/research first.
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