Is this the "flying saucer fails to land" moment for him? AIs (large language models, ai-generated images, etc etc) are now within the experience or understanding of more and more people, and he can't just make stuff up about it anymore?
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I ain't reading all that.
Why does he have such a serious case of expertise (ok, "expertise") creep? Who gives a fuck what the AI weirdo thinks about diets?
this is just conversion therapy with extra steps.
I would be reluctant to go to an irl sneer club. I do like the idea of some sort of "sneer-in" to inform local activist organizations and politically active people about these groups and their cursed ideology.
Think you're right, sorry
That famous shtetl "feminists attack nerds :((( because they're easy targets >:((" is worse in context . The blog post was about how Harvard were wrong to take down videos of physics lectures by a sexual harrasser they just sacked, because they were really good physics lectures you guys. And there were all these appalling comments that Scott didn't give any pushback to - instead, he lit into the one woman in the comments section. for suggesting that nerds commit sexual offences.
I hate this stuff. Bullying someone for being fat is about as likely to make the obesity rate go down as calling people who wear glasses "four-eyes" is going to reduce the rates of astigmatism.
Yes the average weight in the west has gone up, and this isn't great, but more people being fat is a symptom, not a cause of higher rates of lifestyle diseases, and higher rates of lifestyle diseases have been caused by social changes over which fat people have no control, like the rise of the automobile and processed food.
LessWrong and EA can help people to understand logical fallacies, but they can't help people to actually understand their emotions. In fact, the culture around them encourages adherents to feel contempt for their "irrational" emotions and for people who are led by emotion.
Of course it is extremely unpleasant to repress all your emotions, and it is ultimately impossible to do so all the time. How did the LessWrong community solve this problem? Its users limited their emotional expression to acceptable forms and acceptable targets, and expressed their emotions through cult accepted techniques like taking drugs, having sex, cyberbullying leftists and writing really long blogposts.
Like most subcultures, it's the powerful and respected people in EA who determine the dominant norms. With pretty much every leading EAist a middle-class dominant-culture American man who works in tech and wishes feminists would quit whining, it should be no surprise that the norms they created are stereotypically, nay, toxically white and masculine.
A sleazy, woman-harassing psychiatrist who gives out dodgy prescriptions is the real face of EA. Just all the negative stereotypes associated with the 60s counterculture/New Left, with none of the redeeming features.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made An Attack On The Other Worst Person You Know
I will read the article and I'm sure I will enjoy it. I suppose Nathan J. Robinson was caught between his belief in collectivism and his desire for individual expression, and solved the conflict by deciding that the collective, c'est moi!. Many such cases.
I bloody knew it. Years ago I saw an anarchist say "UBI could just be implemented as a way to destroy the social welfare system and turn it all into one meagre benefit that can be turned on and off, like Universal Credit in the UK". And here this guy comes .....