Alicorn is mostly known for being responsible for the polyamory/rationalism link and HPMOR-themed Twilight fanfiction (yes really), however she also support the eugenic extermination of trans people.
(https://carcinisation.com/2015/04/03/have-mercy/)
posted on November 13, 2018 07:17 AM by
u/IneffectiveEgoist
Does anyone have a good take on the origin of the Yudkowskian language exhibited here and by other rationalists?
This kind of shit really wowed when I first read it, now it just makes me embarrassed for them.
gee, I wonder
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I actually read the story. It manages to make the attached essay more vile.
The story is set in the glorious robot future. Death is effectively cured; humans can upload their consciousness onto chips. The Christian church is chill with with genome editing and trans people. And yet, despite all this advancement, it’s still apparently worse– medically and socially– to be trans than cis.
If you caught me in the right mood, I could appreciate a story about parents realizing that their embryo would grow into a trans person and editing his genome to match his experienced gender preemptively. Science-magic him into a cis man rather than a trans man, if you will. In Alicorn’s story, however, the desirable child (Mercy) is a cis woman, whereas her undesirable alternate self is a trans man (Lyle).
So, uh, good to know that trans people have less inherent value than cis people, regardless of social conditions and systemic factors. Real comforting.
The fact that she uses this:
as a way to claim “anti-eugenicists don’t want me to have children” inherently proves she really shouldn’t have children.
Oh hey, the group blog that published luminaries like St “Trump is FAR better on LGBT rights than Hillary” Rev and Sarah “Steve Sailer is great insight porn” Perry
I really struggle to believe that one person is responsible for a bunch of people in the rationalist community choosing to pursue an unconventional sexlife, and suggesting that they could be errs on the side of “gross” for me.
Kinda off topic, but does anyone else think the word “neurodiverse” is primarily a euphemism to allow progressives to pretend like they can treat mental health issues the same way they treat race, sex, and sexual orientation?
I guess preventing gender dysphoria is bad somehow.