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Contest to rename EY according to his proposed naming scheme (https://i.redd.it/vrtdagfa6sa61.jpg)
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I know this isn't the place for it, but they're being brainwashed, theyre being addicted to rage from dishonest sources and then isolated from friends and family who could help them distinguish what's real. Like a cult. This is the wrong place, this is where we sneer, but just out of the frame are oil companies sending all their resources to these talking heads to abuse our not so deep friends and neighbors, and then we just become part of it, when we abuse them aswell.
Tbf, it took until halfway through for that one to deviate from a second description of Trump.

This is the exact same mindset that leads Rationalists to writing 10,000-word blog posts when writing 500 words would be sufficient.

according to my priors, brevity is the soul of wit, but i'd be willing to update them if you can elucidate any high-decoupling alternative heuristics.
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Loquaciousness is the soul of Dunning-Kruger wit.
Figures of speech are for illiterate losers

Victim #2184324 of the acausal robot god tweets what?

Sic 'em

I… what? Is he aware that words, including names, are a representation of a mental construct and as such can evolve to include new information? That is, does the Yud know that we fucking know these things about Trump? There are pragmatic reasons to do stuff like this, but they’re generally context-dependent (like all pragmatics) because we have the capacity to learn. Some of us, anyway.

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Not defending the joke, the badness of which is only matched by how irritatingly smug and toothless it is
He's certainly making a point, but I'd argue that it falls into that pragmatics thing I mentioned. He just takes it too far with trying to make it this bigger than that.
No, he is making a bad joke that thinks it’s cleverer than it is > If you think he isn’t making a poor attempt to dunk on Trump this subreddit has completely poisoned your brain and I would offer compensation personally if I cared enough
"he is making a bad joke that thinks it’s cleverer than it is": Yud's career in one sentence shorter than the joke itself
If no one's laughing and there's legitimately nothing funny, it's not a joke.
That is not how humour works, and also people are clearly laughing, they’re just stupid Don’t throw basic critical interpretative skills under the bus just to get angry at a wanker
I think you need to read the sequences to understand some reference to some enormously long post about abstractions and names and how other people when they use a name can't have in their head what the name refers to, and so on. (You know, the usual, an article which is kind of like if a dog ate a page from a popularization book and shat it out.)
is he though
If you think he isn’t making a poor attempt to dunk on Trump this subreddit has completely poisoned your brain and I would offer compensation personally if I cared enough
*but is he though*
I would be repeating myself if I didn’t just answer: yes.
*BUT IS HE THOUGH*
This joke gets less funny with each iteration but it’s nice to see you trying.
y are u so salty :(
You’ve read me on this sub before
Does it get more funny if I ask too
Yes.
yes
Mr Evrart is helping me find my gun

Whenever you’re annoyed that someone is complaining about “first-past-the-post-primaried, popular-minority Electoral-College-majoritied leader”, remember that they may not have words for concepts like “capitalism” or “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie” but they do know something is very wrong.

He almost certainly does know those words and would use them if he thought they were fitting However, he opted not to, so let's not give undue credit
It's a reference to an [older tweet](https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1079875918972170240).

I will now accept roko’s wager that in 4-5 years, Yud will be ready to take and potentially pass a first-year undergrad philosophy class. No, I’ll lose

The capitalism-enabled, techno-libertarian-funded, serial Harry Potter fanfiction micro-celebrity grifter elevated by billionaire-backed laissez-faire economics professor tweets what…?

what systems produces a self-made man?

None

Imagine thinking what produced Trump was the US having bad mechanics for elections

Tbf, the US having an ass-backwards system definitely didn't help. Especially since he lost by millions of votes in 2016... but won anyway because of the electoral college.

weird how the only systems that produced trump-as-a-disaster were in the election itself

so close yet so far

‘Stop calling everybody dunning kruger’

who are the 111 people liking this word soup

It's kinda funny

Ayn Rand with a beard.

some guy with a blog

That’s definitely a gamble for the Yud

Nice reference to the Unabomber Manifesto, Milo King lol

Where’s the lie though?

Sincerely, a resident of a country with a proportional-representation, single-transferable-vote based system.

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