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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I already wasn’t going to read this screed, but now I’m definitely not going to read it. Sheesh.

 

Looks like it might actually have happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

who tf is this?

They’re a self-described gay, furry ex-mormon who seem to have latched onto the rat & rat-adjacent communities (like EA) in the hope of finding a substitute for the certainty they used to find in religion. Last I heard they work for the Blocked&Reported podcast, i.e. Jesse Singal et al., alongside their job in the US military. (edit: their Twitter claims they’re a law clerk? I guess they moved on.)

On the surface they seem well meaning but naïve, the company they keep (perhaps) being a reflection of that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For the rat & rat-adjacent soi-disant “communities” David is like the bogeyman. You see his name used in places like SSC to stand in for the otherwise nameless woke menace that’s coming for their precious bodily fluids.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

You’d think these people would have learned by now that there’s no upside in them spending their precious time on this earth obsessing over why a group of people don’t like them, but nevertheless here they are: drawn like moths to the flame.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Prolix insanity is kind of a Rationalist / Rat-adjacent calling card.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

This is going to be a banger, I can feel it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Definitely not one of the most heavily armed states in the USA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.

I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.

 

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

 

It will not surprise you at all to find that they protest just a tad too much.

See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZjXtjRQaD2b4PAser/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning

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