“SO there is a certain…manner of speaking that certain men adapt when talking about thing that are difficult, or challenging, or make them feel a feeling that they dislike etc. They want to position themselves as a serious intellectual but also someone who is wrestling with some kind of inner demons, making them even more intelligent and mysterious. it is particularly pronounced when they are trying to position their own pain or discomfort as the most important thing in the world while using very flowery language, the kind one might find in an overwrought fantasy novel.
Overworked vocabulary? Centering their feelings? Thinking they are smarter than they are? Can you imagine Rastling Majere from Dragonlance saying exactly those words?
Dying Wizard.”
-from a reply I made here, with thanks to the metamours who explained it.
We need more jargon, that we can more easily distinguish ingroup and outgroup. It’s working so well for the rationalists, isn’t it?*
Therefore, I propose “dying wizard” be added to our collective lexicon.
Given the techgnosis of their idealized religion, the inability to center anything other than their own feelings, and the absolute NECESSITY of somehow proving subjective, completely human, feelings to be objective and pillars of the universe, I feel it’s appropriate.
I MEAN UH with a .05% margin of error, I have proved it is appropriate. Or something.
*eta: this bit is deeply fucking sarcastic
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand SlateStarCodex. The
racismphilosophy is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of rhetoric most of the points will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also Scott’s rationalist outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Eliezer Yudkowsky’s self-insert fanfic, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these points, to realise that they’re not just trite- they say something deep about SOCIETY. As a consequence people who dislike SlateStarCodex truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the value of Scott’s upholding of the “principle of charity”, which itself is a cryptic reference tonot punching Nazisneoreaction. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Scott Alexander’s genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂And yes, by the way, i DO have a MIRI tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
Please, no ingroup jargon. “Sneer” is enough.
poor guy just wanted to make video games
There’s also smarm. And while I’m not sure how aware of it they are, they clearly consider cognitive decoupling as the ultimate virtue.
new terms mean a new motte and bailey! what’s the other definition?
Can’t we come up with something a little more highbrow than Dragonlance, though?
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