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I haven't seen people wilfully misunderstand all possible criticism of them so hard since the last time rationalists hit the headlines, with Scott Alexander (old.reddit.com)
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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

I constantly experience [the Gell-Mann amnesia] effect on this subreddit; everyone sounds so smart and so knowledgeable until they start talking about the handful of things I know a little bit about (leftism, the arts, philosophy) and they’re so far off the mark — then there’s another post and I’ve forgotten all about it

Bias noted, impact not reduced. Basic rationality failed. These people are so willing to discard their own sense of right and wrong, moral or rational, just to belong in their weird cult. Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don't actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

[-] lobotomy42@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don’t actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

(Not to be trivially reductionist, but...) Because admitting you want friends is unmasculine. IBTP

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago

Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don't actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

Do they just want some likemindedly dorky friends, or a sense of superiority over the normies/NPCs/whatever they call everyone else, complete with extensively footnoted justifications for why they are the cognitive aristocracy?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don’t actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

because that'd involve talking about feelings, and those are the domain of weird squishy gooey human things, disgusting! :sarcmark:

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

then there’s another post and I’ve forgotten all about it

was so sensible until this twisty tail

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