Except he doesn't even assert that but rather presents two trivial observations and leaves it up to reader to infer the clearly dumb take. A dumb take is fine, everyone makes them and that's pretty much what twitter is for, but just fucking say the thing rather than making me complicit in this confusion.
What has EY ever done to make you expect him to be anything less than maximally obscurantist about his points? This is the guy who wrote a million words of Harry Potter fanfic to explain why his ideology is correct.
Wow, if only there were some sort of website dedicated to understanding logical fallacies and applying that knowledge to thinking more rationally. I bet people wouldn't be making stupid arguments like this if something like that existed.
Matt, I don’t mean to be cruelly blunt about this, but you may have
noticed that your current society does *not* run on a dictatorship of
the proletariat, and that your current society isn’t doing too well
10/27/2020: Rationalists declare their support for a permanent
worker’s revolution.
rationalists_irl
Glad to see Elizier taking the brave position that any given proposal is by construction an improvement on the status quo, for any given status quo.
I like how he prefaces a non-point as “cruelly blunt.”
10/27/2020: Rationalists declare their support for a permanent worker’s revolution.
How does Yud know that nationalising all the US billionaires wealth won’t have positive results?
Seriously, this is a line of thought rather at odds with the stuff they constantly spout at MarxBro.
Oh good. It’s the “you can pay back the cost of a life” bullshit.
What kind of a poll is this even is?
‘Your society’ your?
E: vid of yud after he said this
Both are ridiculous; shrink the US population.