probably my pettiest pet peeve is how much i hate science-y parodies of pop songs. rationalists seem to love them and i can't *stand* them. they feel to me like a perversion of what music is supposed to be. truly the puns of music
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
I wonder if it's a general case of liking bad art aimed exactly at you, vs actual good art.
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Replying to @oscredwin
but it's *not* aimed at me! it's aimed at an extremely inaccurate caricature of me
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
I think it's successfully aimed at (some of) them.
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Replying to @oscredwin
oh, at rationalists, yes. i don't consider myself a rationalist and haven't in awhile
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
I mean at a subset of nerd. "rationalist" hasn't been a useful pointer for something like this in a while.
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