Scott Aaronson speaks on the current uprising in the US by reminding of us the time he stole from the change dish at an airport starbucks, and displaying deep gullibility
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posted on June 03, 2020 07:47 PM by
u/completely-ineffable
this is cringeworthy but I’m still semi-impressed that he’s even acknowledging a problem. two or three years ago, I get the feeling his response would’ve been “well akshually police don’t disproportionately blah blah stats blah blah pvalue blah blah cognitive bias.”
otoh; police kneeling is good because it defuses the protests, meaning that the main problem in his head isn’t what they’re protesting but the protestors themselves; ending qualified immunity/military shit to cops is good, but framing the current problem as “psychopath minority” is just “it’s a few bad apples!” in nerdspeak.
so it’s cool he recognizes that cops are killing black people. neat. it’s not cool that he thinks that it’s just some bad cops and once we clear out the bad guys then everything will be fine. shallow misunderstanding from people of good will, etc, etc
Taking off your helmet in a one-off gesture before gassing people again is a deeply moral thing to do??
You know, I always wonder who these obviously meaningless gestures are intended for. I guess I have my answer now.
From his most recent blog post. As the title of the post and its opening paragraph evince, Scott Aa. does not know how to read the room.
This is a pretty normal thing to say and I think it’s boring to sneer at these guys just for saying relatively normal stuff. Who cares.