Weird Pessimist stuff can read as “what a perverse jerk”; Weird Optimist stuff reads as “what a clueless prat”. Foolish. Silly.
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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
Sex positivity seems highly problematic in general. The ones from the 60s were often hazy on child molestation being a bad thing and the religious ones insist vanilla is the only way to go.
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Replying to @bramcohen @s_r_constantin
How would you categorize my feed, with and without grading in a curve for Crypto Twitter?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
I'll take it. Twitter seems overwhelmingly negative in general.
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