• blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
    9·
    22 hours ago

    I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I’m more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:

    E: … right after I graduated from undergrad, I went on a date in San Francisco with a Harvey Mudd alum who revealed to me over the course of the date, which is at like a fancy prohibition style whiskey bar. That part was cool. You had to make a reservation. So I thought that was, I was like, that’s a good sign. That’s really that’s cool of him. He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. And I said, Oh, well, I don’t want to brag, but I’ve written a pretty highly acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises fanfic, and he broke in and said, It’s not a fanfic.

    A: Were they saying their musical wasn’t a fanfic, or that rationality wasn’t a fanfic?

    E: The musical was not a fanfic. And I didn’t know what to say to that. […] And then he also, this is the guy who he tried to get me drunk when I didn’t want to. Uh, super rational. Very rational. Yeah, rational. I want to have sex with this girl and she doesn’t want to have sex with me. The rational thing to do is to change one of those conditions, and I can’t not want to have sex with her. Um, and told me that he did not ask his female friends for dating advice because if you’re a hunter, you ask a hunter and not a deer. These were the same guys. He was the same guy.

  • lurker@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    19 hours ago

    Telling people that the AI superintelligence guy also posted a Harry Potter self-insert fanfic to push his beliefs and recruit people to his ideology is a huge bombshell to drop on someone

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      There are so many connections between all these people and big events/culture war stuff that I jokingly start calling myself a conspiracy theorist when I start explaining these things.

      (See how you can go from Jason Arday to LW in 3 steps. Arday to the racist Cofnas, who is in a picture with Moldbug who was popularized using lesswrong).