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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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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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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I was a Weird Optimist kid, a Normal Optimist in college, and a Weird Optimist again afterwards (though my cultural markers were more Weird Pessimist, since I came from an intellectual family).
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(I need to add that I also have a very strong Normal Pessimist side — Eastern European, immigrant, started with odd jobs, former war and Holocaust researcher etc. It’s a weird “asset” I probably won’t use until the Apocalypse
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