Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Yud says so much, and its often so confusing, that I think a lot of his followers donāt know his main messages. It used to be orthodox that you cannot have a two-faced message any more without each audience learning what you say to the others, but that assumed you were a good communicator aiming at a mass audience.
Yud has strange views about legal responsibility:
But if you release a virus and it infects people, we donāt hold the virus responsible, we hold you. If you build a car and it explodes when it gets rear-ended, we donāt blame the car, we blame you.
Ah, so itās Mythos that will create the
nanobotsdiamondoid bacteriaThis is very late to respond but what Iāve noticed is that a when people in rationalist spaces respond to Yud, they often say āmy interpretation of this isā¦ā and things along similar lines, which always struck me as weird