Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden 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, and happy 4th July in advance.)
Milkshake ducked
I mean as far as I can tell heās one of the least objectionable prominent rationalists, if only because his main thing is pushing an extreme position wrt animal consciousness instead of being a eugenics and incelism dabbler.
edit: Nevermindā¦ The Epstein Hysteria
Yeah. For being a little strange I find the shrimp welfare stuff pretty unobjectionable. Like, he vastly overstates the magnitude of good done by those stunners because he does appear to be a shut-up-and-multiply bro, but Iām comfortable with the general notion that we should be nicer to shrimp and other animals we eat, even the ones that donāt make good PETA glamour shots.
Ed: oh sweet merciful Jesus the Epstein take. Nope. Iām actually investigating whether we should torture shrimp even harder just to make sure since their most ardent defender is like this.
The shrimp stuff is objectionable insofar as the brain bug that makes you think that if you add up enough shrimp you get the moral entity equivalent of a person because consciousness stacks is the same as the one that makes stuff like longtermism palatable, and also for making the animal welfare movement at large seem unserious.
That is pretty badā¦ all the standard rationalist thick-headed idiocy and quibbling details and choice of gross example. But even so if that is their worst, they still arenāt in the worst quartile of rationalist.
Double ducked, what a rollercoaster. (I thought you made a good point before that).
The Epstein take is made worse by the fact that despite Epstein and Maxwell and some people who resigned, nobody has been charged with anything yet from what I know. It is a āwitchhuntā (using the words of people who find this overblown) that doesnt even burn witches.