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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This can be split into several camps. There's the QC thing which, I frankly feel like a lot of (but not QC himself) is people coming into LW with Dawkins new atheist memes, pattern matching EY to them, getting talked out of Dawkins and then blaming EY.https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1353841026633371648 …
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Then there's like your (eigenrobot)'s thing which is basically grillpill with extra steps.pic.twitter.com/nKMtADAltM
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Then there's this Crowley mysticism thing where you LARP believing in magick but not like, Believing In Magick and you need to strike this tightrope balance between being hip without coming off like an actual maniac. Kinda like Jack Parsons but less coolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU …
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Then, finally, you get to the actually serious philosophers who just have some kind of beef with rationality in the Extropian-Bayesian formulation. Some of this is Buddhists like
@nosilverv, or monotheists(?) like@michaelcurzi. Lots of 'embodiment' and anti-induction discourse.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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In terms of explaining what this is or where it came from, that's kind of difficult because it's frankly a mess. So the easiest way to actually explain this would probably just be to get empirical-historical about exactly how these elements fit into adjacent subcultural currents.
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Also explaining the death of LW 1 and the overall epistemological crisis in the sciences (e.g. replication crisis) as well as sociopolitical events (e.g. rise of Donald Trump) that made the core thesii of LW "raise the sanity waterline" and "learn to win at everything" nonviable.
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If I had to compress it into a tweet postrat is the wreckage of the LW social network after people realized most useful domains are anti-inductive (i.e. not natural philosophy shaped in study) and science is broken, so you may as well get high on copium while the world burns.
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I think everyone just aged ten years
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I aged ten years too.pic.twitter.com/FK51eE3O2Y
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and you're a reactionary historian just like us!
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Sometimes I think back to before I learned about any of this stuff, or anything adjacent to it. When I was 9 playing Pokemon on gameboy. It's weird to think how little idea I had what my future would look like, even when I tried to imagine it. https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1341632606991880192 … Stage 0
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John David Pressman @jd_pressmanLeyland Kirby's Everywhere At The End Of Time has gone semi-viral recently. It's a six hour concept album about dementia, a odd candidate for viral popularity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc … I think a lot of that popularity stems from its accidental description of the Zoomer life arc.Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
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