This is old, but Scott Aaronson once said that I would have rather been the "poor black kid" or "the gay kid" when it came to struggling with his fear of women. Completely blind to his own privilege!

This is old, but Scott Aaronson once said that I would have rather been the "poor black kid" or "the gay kid" when it came to struggling with his fear of women. Completely blind to his own privilege! (https://i.redd.it/x5zq05ekmpva1.png)

posted on April 23, 2023 10:32 PM by u/yhl3052

u/DELETED 35 points at 1682290423.000000

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u/Studstill 13 points at 1682348100.000000

Idk, I've been here for months and this feels like definitely the worst thing Ive ever heard of Mr. Aaronson puzzling out. "Are you kidding me", the requisite and incredible arrogance on full display. This is almost stupider/wronger than anything I've seen here, deserves a retread/share; I mean "roll of the dice" ffs that is unreal.

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u/dizekat 5 points at 1682559987.000000

Yeah I haven't seen this one before either. It's almost as bad as the story behind the blog name. I think the guy gets too much benefit of the doubt. If a blog with that kind of [naming story](https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=476) is doing critiques of feminism, that is like a bear shitting in the woods or pope being catholic. Guys who are mad they weren't issued a woman tend not to like feminism for obvious reasons, regardless of how much or little they confabulate alternative origin stories for their dislike. If anything it is more surprising that his blog doesn't consist *entirely* of that sort of content; and it's little wonder that he gets some incel trolls obsessed with bringing consistency between his blog's unironic name and the content on said blog, by any means up to and including posting fake attacks on the guy. It's the incels who need him to be an anti-feminist professor in the mold of Jordan Peterson.

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u/Studstill 2 points at 1682563455.000000

How old was he for that? jeez

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u/Charming_Party9824 2 points at 1684526982.000000

In grad school

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u/Studstill 1 points at 1684529103.000000

"fake it til you ~~make it~~ declare yourself to be elected and beloved magistrate of any town so blessed"

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u/Shitgenstein 12 points at 1682355017.000000

If we're retreading Scott Aaronson stuff, I'd like to retread the time he sneered at my username in the middle of a pity party over SneerClub, because it's funny. https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/99pttr/scott_aaronson_responds_to_our_sneers_the_sneers/e4rg5q1/ > They’re able to sit in ultimate judgment over me, like God blotting me out from the Book of Life, they who comment on Reddit using handles like “Shitgenstein.” Lmao

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u/Studstill 7 points at 1682363615.000000

Lol. Does blotting have a dual use like that, or is that an incredibly mixed metaphor? Always more questions with this crowd.

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u/Shitgenstein 7 points at 1682382743.000000

Idk but I just picture myself over a massive 'Book of Life' with a CIA redaction marker committing *damnatio memoriae* in real time, which is a hilarious image for a (sometimes) shitposter like myself. I'm sure he's exaggerating for comedic effect but probably one of those times which, if not on the internet, the wrong person is laughing harder. Tbc, this Scott is one that I know/care least about so never been a hard or loud sneerer toward him, so he really just picked my name as, Idk, pretentious and silly? Really knocking on an open door, in that regard.

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u/Soyweiser 4 points at 1682424830.000000

And he didnt even say 'that is not witty that is shitty' to make another joke about Wittgenstein.

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u/Soyweiser 3 points at 1682424742.000000

Amazing how he gets so worked up about us, but has not figured out that he could just block all people who visit his site via reddit. Neonazi says horrible things about scott. Scott: 'you ruined my life!' Points past the journalists who wrote about his anti-feminist son story post (they are now interviewing the neonazi for a human interest story) Shitgenstein looks up from mocking Yud and people on badphil 'wait what'.

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u/DELETED 2 points at 1682556224.000000

The Book of Life works like the Death Note! But you cross names off instead of writing them in.

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u/yhl3052 6 points at 1682289747.000000

Source: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2119#comment-359646

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