Happend quite a few times with the “skeptic” yt people in the yt’er to alt right funnel/pipeline from a decade ago. (A few of these people have really lost the plot now

I would love a separate thread on this, more generally a “late 2000s/early 2010s skeptic ytbuers, where are they now”?. The only example (sorta*) I have is thunderf00t, whose yt career track is: anti-christianity, anti-anita sarkeesian, and now anti musk.

*he is not alt right, at least by any mainstream definition of alt-right, afaict.

Pretty sure if I asked ChatGPT about essay writing tips or what the best essay ever looked like, it would be more coherent than this rancid melange.

Ahh, gotcha. This is what I get for not being active on the birdsite.

If I had to pick a mathematical model, it'd be a drunken walk.

Loving the bioshock/rapture comp in the yt comments.

Instead of aping Jeff Bezos he is aping other bald luminary Moby

(yes, tho i was more making a joke about how “nazism” is shorthand for “national socialism”)

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if this were the case – the whole schtick of a lot of these people is “worrying about increasing the number of future possibly-existing humans, even at the cost of the suffering of actually-existing humans”, so being anti-abortion honestly seems not too far out of their wheelhouse?

Same energy as those score-maximising Tetris AIs that taught themselves to stack blocks to the kill line and pause.

Like I think in the EAverse you can just kinda go “well this makes people have less kids which means less QALYs therefore we all know it’s obviously bad and I don’t really need to justify it.” (with bonus internet contrarian points if you are justifying some terrible thing using your abstract math, because that means you’re Highly Decoupled and Very Smart.) See the quote elsewhere in this thread about the guy defending child marriage for similar reasons.

Ughhh yeah that sounds about right.

My own self doubt asks: do rationalists feel shame, though?

IT IS THE PRESENT

A man intended to do acting work has been programmed to sell reverse mortgages to scam old people.

Someone must stop the madman who started it all.

If it weren't for the fact that many people in the ratspace are privileged, I'd feel sad for them. They are frogs in a well and crabs in a bucket. They exist in a solipsistic pit, thinking their worldview is built from pure logic and not their individual experience. This is all well-trodden ground- we know LW et al. is a cult. Such a strange and specific way to hamstring yourself, to self-lobotomise. Something something Plato's cave, qualia, lobster social hierarchy reference.

I don't know whether I should feel happy that I will have a sustainable snark receptacle for the near future or sad that the basilisk won't eventually consume itself tail-first.