Safety Dance and Weird Al are Weird Optimist.
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Stoner and raver culture are Weird Optimist.
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Most online content I see is fights between different factions of Weird Pessimists, with Normal Optimists stepping in to tell others not to be so “negative” or to add jokes, cute animals, or promotional materials.
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Once in a while Normal Pessimists pipe up to tell everyone how much they suck.
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HPMOR and the LessWrong Sequences were firmly Weird Optimist, which is why I think they’ve gotten so much flak in recent years. Robin Hanson, though, has always been Weird Pessimist, like most public intellectuals. And EA is a Normal Optimist movement.
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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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Reply and I’ll categorize your Twitter.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Not surprised since I agree with Robin Hanson far more than most of LW. Not clear if your system handles AI risk arguments very well though. "AI will be super dangerous unless we try incredibly hard" doesn't seem very optimistic. (I don't think it will be dangerous.)
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Optimism/Pessimism here doesn’t actually mean one’s prediction of the future being good or bad, but one’s expressed affect. Do you condemn others or express sorrow about the state of the world? Pessimist.
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