Ha, I clocked them as rationalist.

I can’t really tell who the insaner person is here, which is an achievement.

Since this is the solo version, strawmasturbating

Re fame, he ends up on the orange site often enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scottaaronson.com

Wonder if people karma farm there…

“Rational Wiki presents an understanding of reality that I mostly agree with and is thus boring. I want some spicy takes so I’m going to go suck on the firehose of reactionary diarrhoea, but it’s ok because my throat game is too good to let any of it through” type shit

All time banger

I’m reasonably certain worse emails exist but they’re with sympathetic individuals.

The slight of hand is that he considers all Jewish hostages to be his last child, and all Palestinian bystanders to be the children of his enemy. Humanism is seeing them all as your children. Scott seems to have discovered what we might call “race-ism.”

The amazing part about his deranged homicidal metaphor is that it would work exactly the same way if you were using it to argue in favor of Hamas. I knew this guy had issues, I even felt bad for him, but the brainworms have clearly won. Hate is intoxicating and one should not indulge in it to this degree lest one lose one’s humanity.

Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he’s just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn’t matter that he’s bonkers.

Even just transcribing these and hosting them is extremely helpful, thanks.

Only things that a hidden camera can do.

Man I thought this was gonna be about the very real dilemma about what is to be done with ICE and other political vanguards if libs ever get power again while trying to come out the other side with some semblance of rule of law and respect for institutions. And the plain fact is that by weaponizing the government to the degree they have, the Trump administration has made it very difficult to ever return to a place where it’s not weaponized.

But her long winded defense of the doge boys undermines her point. They’re not ‘smart young boys’, they’re worms who’s vile crime will stain us for generations.

When I tried to read it I felt like I was illiterate.

glowfic enjoyers

A real category?

Seems like a write-only medium.

But then, LitRPG also exists, much to my confusion and dismay.

Ok, I tried giving it a fair shake, and I guess it’s got the same problem as every other forum roleplay: it’s fun to roleplay, not fun to read someone else’s roleplay.

many people I know who got more from HPMOR read it carefully, perhaps stopping after every chapter to think about the goals and motivations of each character and predict what happens next

I didn’t find the thread you are talking about, but I found this instead, which is probably much worse.

(Edit: I did eventually find the thread!)

Did the jargon file fail to evolve, or did Raymond just stop maintaining it? It roughly coincides with when the full extent of his brain breakage became apparent (“anti idiotiarian manifesto.”)

Or maybe it represents the end of when the Stallmanites, The corporate types (incl. Raymond) and the Linux Fandom actually saw eye-to-eye.