>Antifa is not threatened by fascists; it NEEDS fascists. It is threatened by a narrative that doesn't need it
Of course antifa needs fascists; if the fascists stopped goose stepping about in public, there would be no need for the Black Bloc to show up, you slip-brained flog
This one I can’t fault Yudkowsky for, it’s one of the few things I
actually think is a good takeaway from the sequences. There are lots of
things that are actually strange but feel normal, and when you stop to
figure them out, they reveal something, commonly about yourself these
days, but also about our world. Or at least that’s what it reads like
through my weird perception filter.
So the "takeaway" is just critical reflection in general?
> Or at least that's what it reads like through my weird perception filter.
"Or at least that's what I got from it."
Why the fuck do people feel the need to say common sense things but in such cryptic, overly overly complex ways?
.... I’ve noticed that many mortals tend to adopt the cognitive strategy of signaling intelligence by repackaging straightforward heuristics in language that conceals them in a Rawlsian Veil of deductive logic that presents itself as a chain of reasoning instead of a simple observation. I’m smart and know a lot of things.
AFAIK, that is also essentially the phenomenology of consciousness-raising (at least as discussed by feminist theorists such as Sandra Bartky), where the familiar becomes strange, noteworthy and potentially changeable: 'feminists are not aware of different things than other people; they are aware of the same things differently. Feminist consciousness, it might be ventured, turns a "fact" into a "contradiction"; often, features of social reality are first apprehended as contradictory, as in conflict with one another, or as disturbingly out of phase with one another'.
If you’re a smart person who values being smart, it’s critical that
you notice that “because of evolutionary processes” isn’t all that
different from “because of the gods” if that’s where your thinking
terminates
Going ‘nethack gave me superpowers’ suddenly seems a more common idea.
E: also isnt ‘kids see anomalies where parents do not’ a super common kids entertainment trope?
I’m confused. (Noticeably so)
Rationalist word salad is almost as bad as Deepak chopra word salad.
“Noticing confusion” would definitely seem like a superpower to someone who finds Yudkowsky insightful.
Don’t miss her thread on antifa!
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1146875905542778881
You’ll be shocked to learn she is also a Paul Graham stan
This one I can’t fault Yudkowsky for, it’s one of the few things I actually think is a good takeaway from the sequences. There are lots of things that are actually strange but feel normal, and when you stop to figure them out, they reveal something, commonly about yourself these days, but also about our world. Or at least that’s what it reads like through my weird perception filter.
What?
This is good, though: