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 @TheAnnaGat
Normal Optimist/Weird Pessimist hybrid. (civility + literature. Same blend as The New Yorker.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Oh my god this is the nicest compliment I’ve ever got! I’m getting a tattoo now
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Weird Optimist. (Most of my friends are Weird Pessimists though.)
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Replying to @s_r_constantin
Oh! And did you change course along the way, hence the difference — or did they? Or did you self-select each other for the contrast?
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I think they did; the trend over the past 5-10 years has been for Weird Optimists to turn into Weird Pessimists or occasionally into Normal Optimists or Normal Pessimists. Weird Pessimism is booming.
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