The Other's theory of themselves usually does not make them look terrible. And you will not have much luck just yelling at them about how they must *really* be doing terrible_thing instead. That's woke filter bubble thinking. I stopped talking to Michael when he went that way.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @zackmdavis and
I suggest that you write a reply before blocking me, so that your brain goes into less of an infinite loop about whatever reply you couldn't give. I mean, it'll still go into an infinite loop about how I might not be convinced and that's an absolutely unacceptable feature of...
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @zackmdavis and
...our dying Earth, but, it will be less of an infinite loop than if you try not to speak at all, I'd guess.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @zackmdavis and
For concreteness: what I think your brain is doing is seeing me say "caliphs are always right", feeling subtle discomfort, and writing 10,000 words about how terrible it is to LIE and deceive people about always being right, because if, counter to reality, that was the crux...
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @zackmdavis and
...you would have a straightforward path to winning the argument. But I did not think I was deceiving. And you do not know how to find and articulate the real source of your disquiet which isn't that. But it's unbearable that I don't agree right now, so you have to win...
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @zackmdavis and
...right now, so you can't hang out with the lack of clarity and consider different hypotheses and track down the real source of discomfort, you have to write more and more words that should absolutely convince someone that lying is definitely bad.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @davidxu90 and
The real source of discomfort is that I'm incredibly bitter about spending three and a half years of my life explaining a very basic point over and over in increasing technical detail, and people pretending not to get it because of their political incentives. 1/6
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Replying to @zackmdavis @ESYudkowsky and
I agree that the Other's explicit theory of themselves isn't "I'm pretending not to understand this because of my political incentives"; the psychology of motivated stupidity is subtler than that. But "Other is motivatedly stupid" needs to be a live hypothesis! 2/6
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Replying to @zackmdavis @ESYudkowsky and
After all these years, I'm so disgusted with the caliphate's performance (including you—especially you) that my bitterness and contempt often leaks out in unproductive and wrong ways, like flipping out when you praise Scott or the "rationalists" collectively, even humorously. 3/6
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Replying to @zackmdavis @ESYudkowsky and
The error in "Not Man for the Categories" is not subtle! After the issue had been brought to your attention, I think you should have been able to condemn it: "Scott's wrong; you can't redefine concepts in order to make people happy; that's retarded." It really is that simple! 4/6pic.twitter.com/plsSbpPrTu
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this is just a semantic argument
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