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.
Crooked Timber isn’t always sad but it is...sort of engaged in a process of eternal criticism, maybe that’s it? It doesn’t conceive of a state beyond critique as a good thing? Weird Pessimists think criticism *is a form of appreciation*.
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The “showing up at school dressed in black” vs “showing up dressed in a clown suit” thing is relevant here. Weird Pessimists are the former, Weird Optimists are the latter.
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This seems about 20% clown suit and 80% dressed in ... dark blue:pic.twitter.com/BOLrfG875S
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