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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Good news everyone! Someone with a SlackSlub has started a series countering the TESCREAL narrative.

He (c'mon, it's a guy) calls it "R9PRESENTATIONALism"

It stands for

  • Relational
  • 9P
    • Postcritical
    • Personalist
    • Praxeological
    • Psychoanalytic
    • Participatory
    • Performative
    • Particularist
    • Poeticist
    • Positive/Affirmationist
  • Reparative
  • Existentialist
  • Standpoint-theorist
  • Embodied
  • Narrativistic
  • Therapeutic
  • Intersectional
  • Orate
  • Neosubstantivist
  • Activist
  • Localist

I see no reason why this catchy summary won't take off!

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RCDEFhCLcifogLwEm/exploring-the-anti-tescreal-ideology-and-the-roots-of-anti

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also "orate" is a fucking verb

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

They probably conflated it with ornate lol

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

they should just touch GRASS

Guided Rationalist Acceptance of Socionormality Studies

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I have a better counter narrative:

  • Consequentialism
  • Universalism
  • Meta-analytical
  • Singularitarianism
  • Heuristicationalism
  • Autodidacticalisticalistalism
  • Retro-regresso-revisionism
  • Transhumanisticiousnessness
  • Exo-galactic-civilisationalismnisticalism
  • Rationalist

Can’t think of a good acronym though, but it’s a start

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
  • Accelerationism
  • Consequentialism
  • Conservatism
  • Orthodoxy
  • Rationalism
  • Disestablishmentarianism
  • Intellectualism
  • Natalism
  • Galileianism
  • Transhumanism
  • Outside the box thinking
  • Anti-empiricism
  • Laissez-faire
  • LaVeyan Satanism
  • Kantian deontology
  • Nationalism
  • Orgasm denial
  • Western chauvinism
  • Neo-Aristotelianism
  • Longtermism
  • Altruism
  • White supremacy
  • Sinophobia
  • Orientalism…
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 3 hours ago

Inside Yud there are two wolves, one is sinophobic, the other is orientalist