shocked to see such an august and respected journalistic take haver of known quality of opinions such as J*ss* S*ng*l linking rationalist eugenicist nonsense from S.R. Constantin that just happens to slot perfectly into his previous opinions
(https://archive.is/shTFY)
posted on April 08, 2019 06:37 AM by
u/dgerard
Well I’m personally hella surprised by rationalists coming up with a thing where the less you know of the subject you’re talking about, the better you are at it.
We should just sterilize all of the artists and continental philosophers and be done with it.
… homosexuality is about a bit more than just ‘sex acts’, discrimination, marriage, adoption, not being harassed/mocked, etc. In fact, which sex acts are allowed is totally different from homosexuality.
I know that he prob was trying to do the ‘I used only anti leftwing examples, so lets add an anti conservative example’ thing. But he fucked it up. This is basic stuff (in fact, by linking homosexuality to just sexual acts, he in fact made this slightly homophobic, nice work…).
I feel like there’s an assumption right there, that these long, wordy blogs are better or more right than the rage-tweets.
But if LessWrong and SSC are anything to go by, well, they aren’t really that much better.
That might be because you’re obsessed by it. Just saying.
I guess I should be glad that he at least admits that.
Thing is, you don’t really need a term like decoupling to do that.
So, as of yet, “erisology” isn’t really a scientific discipline. It’s just “the stuff that a rando called Nerst believes.” That makes the name a bit pompous.
“I’m gonna believe the guy who thinks he just invented a new field over the ones who are experts in an established one. That makes sense.”
I mean, I’m not saying that science can’t become outdated, or that new fields are inherently bad, but maybe you could wait for actual evidence before endorsing this stuff?
Came here to post this with the title “Furiously wanking in public and appalled no one will engage with me in a civil debate.” That’s Singal’s fetish.
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As you all know, I’m a big supporter of decoupling, and as such see no problem with it. Disagreements on the internet are rampant, and if only people agreed to set aside what I know to be the irrelevant aspects of their position and focus on what I think really matters, life would be so much better! So much time on the internet is wasted because people aren’t taking their discussions seriously enough to set aside their petty grievances and concerns like potentially advocating for genocide and talk about the real, important topics like how to raise the population’s IQ by a few percentiles.
Clearly the problem’s on the internet are endemic of a larger problem, that is that we keep attaching meaning to things. If only we could be cold dispassionate calculating machines we would be so much more efficient. With the exception of marxism of course, because you can’t separate that from the soviet purges or the Tiananmen square massacre.
Imagine how peaceful the world would be of only people knew how to argue properly on twitter. Instead of sending rape and death threats, fascists could just send people links to studies showing how they are genetically inferior and ought to be euthanised. We’d probably have world peace by lunchtime.
I know some might consider decoupling to be a machiavellian debating tactic, but they couldn’t be more wrong. If you don’t understand why, you clearly just aren’t decoupling enough. It’s what all the smart, hard science people who are actually intelligent do. You don’t want to be one of those hippie artists do you?
Jesse Singal was erased from existence weeks ago as part of a donation goal for a Donkey Kong stream so I don’t know what youre talking about
Debate club just hasn’t been the same since everyone learned how to read :(
“Ability.”
“Better at it.”
These people are characterizing ignorance of relevant facts as some kind of skill, because it serves their ideological purposes to ignore those facts.
Link doesn’t work for me.
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