There’s dozens or harassment communities, if you say anything that’s not pure, weapons grade condemnation of anything USSR or AES nuts accusations start getting levelled.
Internet communists have to be like the most irrelevant political bloc in the world. Even if you take the stance that everyone is hoping for a return of purges that’s still just a completely irrelevant group. Most people I’ve seen being accused of tankyness is are more nuanced.
Wtf is going on. I thought it would settle down after the reddit migration faded.
oh god, don’t make me remember lesswrong.
I remember thinking he was smart until I got to the physics (my expertise) and was like “Oh wow, he’s stupid”
He did get me interested in real philosophy though so credit where it’s due.
Yudkowsky, much like the bourgeois news, sounds informed and informative until the subject becomes one you know anything at all about.
Yeah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect is something to always be looking out for.
Gotta always be careful to work out if something is a convincing argument or just sounds like one.
He’s not as clever as he thinks he is, but that feels like an unfair bar - nobody in the history of humanity has been as clever as Yudkowsky thinks he is.
I am having a bad day, and this gift of laughter you have given is deeply appreciated.
Always here for shitting on rationalists who, after agonising deliberation and study, conclude the ideas they got attached to as teens reading SciFi really are serious after all.