The key to avoiding a retread of Brave New World or Morlocks /
Eloi
Holy hell - every time I think I’m being uncharitable about the
rationalist skull-measurer set by summing up their philosophy as
“armchair philosophy + cozy genre fiction = accelerated fascism”, I get
another example like this.
Yes, let’s avoid another “retread” of two 100-year-old novels.
I’m getting a tattoo of this line from the original post. Though I’d
feel better if it were something more reversible.
But then when real people try to think up ideas, they come up with
fascinating things like prediction markets and seasteading and
Mormonism. Or as some sci-fi author once put it, “the average fictional
alien race is less genuinely foreign than the average Chinese
person”.
I mean, kinda true. Space aliens in fiction are always just bland abstractions of how humanity thinks about itself. Whiel an individual chinese person has genuinely rich history and a connection to a massive set of diverse cultures and subcultures.
Scifi sadly rarely manages to reach that level.
Hmm! That's a better way to put it. I'm wary of rationalists playing up differences between people, for obvious reasons. Smacks of "the inscrutable Orient" and whatnot: bland negations of how people think of their own ways of living.
This could be a turning point where you reflect on the fact that you have a tendency to get outraged by things you don't even understand, and a tendency to read everything written by people you don't like, in the worst possible interpretation. In fact, that's pretty much this whole sub.
jesus christ.. eugenics explainer? That's a bit extreme, isn't it?
I'll say it again:
>and a tendency to read everything written by people you don't like, in the worst possible interpretation
that is still a huge leap. I have no favorable feelings towards eugenics and here I am being accused of sympathy for basically suggesting somebody should do a double-take on their assumptions.
If this subreddit didn't have the characteristics I described, it would look more like /r/iamverysmart
but it doesn't.. There are a few people that are disliked here, and seemingly everything they say is viewed with the most pernicious interpretation. Often making huge stretches of imagination just to achieve it.
I lurk here because sometimes people actually explain their views and make good arguments that I can get behind, and I enjoy snarky humour in general, but there is *a whole lot* of slander that goes on here unfairly also.
Slander? In sneerclub, well I never...
E: also spookyvision said 'benign eugenics' not 'eugenics' don't read the worst in what people said, or you will be outraged by things you don't really understand. ;)
that one goes both ways; neurotypicals are also pretty bad at estimating the actual thoughts/feelings/perspectives of people with autism
and on the high-functioning end, people who choose train this end up learning to use their more analytical thinking to frequently sub in for, or even surpass, much of the emotional reasoning nuerotypicals would have as instinct
The difference is between cognitive empathy, which is colloquially called empathy, and affective empathy, which is colloquially called sympathy. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand why people feel a certain way, while affective empathy is the ability to tune into the emotions of others when realizing what they are feeling. Autism generally makes one less cognitively empathetic, while a lack of affective empathy is called psychopathy. Autism might also make one less capable of realizing what kinds of emotions people around them are experiencing based on nonverbal cues.
> Project Prevention UK will not be paying for sterilization procedures. The BMA just makes that too difficult. If you disagree with this decision please contact the BMA with your opinion. We will only be paying addicts and alcoholics to use long term birth control until further notice.
http://www.projectprevention.org/united-kingdom/
Probably because he divulges many of his patients' private information, and information protected by HIPAA, all over the same blog that he welcomes race and IQ realists to comment on.
Holy hell - every time I think I’m being uncharitable about the rationalist skull-measurer set by summing up their philosophy as “armchair philosophy + cozy genre fiction = accelerated fascism”, I get another example like this.
Yes, let’s avoid another “retread” of two 100-year-old novels.
I’m getting a tattoo of this line from the original post. Though I’d feel better if it were something more reversible.
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…this man is responsible for medical care.
forgive my ignorance but isnt it a myth to imply people with Aspergers literally lack the ability to empathize / emotions
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I’ve looked up this Project Prevention thing. It’s a wild ride for sure.
Jesus fucking Christ, this is disgusting.
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