I'm still not entirely sure what your beef is with Scott Alexander, aside from the fact that he's willing to directly engage with the people who he discusses. I mean, at the end of the day, he still wrote a massive point-by-point refutation of the entire neoreactionary philosophy. For whatever credit he might superficially give them in order to understand their thinking, he clearly still thinks they're massively delusional.
I'm still not entirely sure what your beef is with Scott Alexander, aside from the fact that he's willing to directly engage with the people who he discusses. I mean, at the end of the day, he still wrote a massive point-by-point refutation of the entire neoreactionary philosophy. For whatever credit he might superficially give them in order to understand their thinking, he clearly still thinks they're massively delusional.
Dude.
He wrote a piece in which he literally tries to argue Trump isn't sexist.
He quotes Mencius Moldbug as a source of wisdom in a blogpost about gay marriage.
Furthermore, instead of dropping the mic after that FAQ, he continues to talk to neo-fascists, endorse their blogs, and helps to spread their message to a wider audience, with multiple actual people having said he was what drew them to neoreaction.
also there was the whole "maybe the reason there aren't women programmers is because women are bad at programming, I can't believe I'm so smart that I'm the only one who's ever had this thought" business
I was peripherally aware of his fall from grace but that's a pretty extreme descent. I mean, the FAQ itself is a pretty unequivocal dismissal of basically every idiotic premise on which the alt-right is built.
You know who did have the correct response to neoreaction? Eliezer Yudkowsky
Anyone posting a neoreactionary concept on my Facebook wall would be instablocked and the comment deleted. It’d be like their posting creationism on my wall; somebody needs to reeducate them, but it’s not going to be me. I think that if you do argue with neoreactionaries instead of just blocking them, then you’ve been suckered into Somebody Is Wrong On The Internet syndrome and trollfeeding.
You know who did have the correct response to neoreaction? Eliezer Yudkowsky
Anyone posting a neoreactionary concept on my Facebook wall would be instablocked and the comment deleted. It’d be like their posting creationism on my wall; somebody needs to reeducate them, but it’s not going to be me. I think that if you do argue with neoreactionaries instead of just blocking them, then you’ve been suckered into Somebody Is Wrong On The Internet syndrome and trollfeeding.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Where can I read about the concept of freedom of speech?
Because, well, I wanna educate myself. Free speech is one of those things I'm finding I understand less and less as time goes on, especially because it doesn't seem to mean what I expect it to mean.
In a set of studies about compliance methods, the researcher found evidence for the effectiveness of the "foot-in-the-face" (FITF) technique, which combines the DITF and FITD techniques.[17]
Just have "100,000 Fireflies" on a loop tonight. Not sure why. Maybe I need the emotional provocation to remind myself that I am capable of healthy sadness rather than just... whatever this is.
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He wrote a piece in which he literally tries to argue Trump isn't sexist.
I was peripherally aware of his fall from grace but that's a pretty extreme descent. I mean, the FAQ itself is a pretty unequivocal dismissal of basically every idiotic premise on which the alt-right is built.
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Work in thirty minutes and I'm sore all over
Let's hope caffeine will let me ignore this
That's actually some very solid reasoning, yes.
I also have not, and had been wondering about that
I hope he's ok
He has just been posting less in general, all told...