Normal Optimist is like superhero movies, upbeat pop songs, “Everything is fine, or would be if those damn malcontents didn’t make it DIFFICULT! Just like things and don’t dislike things, okay?!”
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Crooked Timber and Harper’s are Weird Pessimist publications. Most academics in the humanities are Weird Pessimists.
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Anybody who hates “kitsch” or “platitudes” or “sanitized” content is a Weird Pessimist. The people who produce that content are Normal Optimists.
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Early MIRI and HPMoR and the Sequences seem clearly Weird Pessimist by your description.
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Disagree! They did criticize, but they weren’t primarily works of criticism. HPMOR is (humorous and whimsical) fiction; MIRI intended to singlehandedly solve AI by doing math; the Sequences aimed to explain and develop a theory.
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