“Hey Wednesday,” said Pugsley. “What’s ‘silver-plattered
conflict’?”
“That’s like how all our neighbors think we’re freaks.”
“So, what’s ‘wish fulfillment’?”
“That’s like how everyone who feels that they’re a freak can show up
here and be understood.”
Thing scurried over the oaken table, sorting photographs into piles.
Wednesday picked up one that showed the two siblings bowing at the
conclusion of their school play, their sharp foils gallantly flourished,
their costumes and their bodies and the stage awash in blood. She set
the picture beside a happy snap of the end of summer camp. She had known
burning the village to the ground would be necessary, but she had not
anticipated that the mere smell of smoke would call back such joy, all
this time later.
“OK,” he said, “but would parents read about us?”
Their parents’ voices emanated from the master bedroom. “Cara
mia!” “Mon cher! Oh, mon très, très cher!”
Are there really that many novels about women who can’t make
up their minds between a vampire and a werewolf, other than
Twilight? I suspect there are actually more works about “what
if two monsters got married and raised a family of monsters”, tbh.
You don't understand: cheesy YA novels with insufferable *male* protagonists are treasures that can be used to show the immortals truths of rationalism. Also, reading them makes you a "nerd", even if such novels were read by pretty much anybody in the world twice. On the other hand, cheesy YA novels with flat *female* protagonists are trash, and even being in a 500 mile radius from a copy of them makes you completely and inescapably mainstream.
There's the early books in the Anita Blake series, although the author resolved the conflict by making everyone preternaturally poly. At least that was the status quo when I stopped reading seven or eight books ago.
It was also a thing in the Sookie Stackhouse books. I suspect that's what he's thinking of, since that series included the fae.
I don't know if there are enough works to constitute a subgenre, but it's a thing. (Paranormal semi-romance was my favorite non-prestige genre for a while.)
> I suspect there are actually more works about "what if two monsters got married and raised a family of monsters", tbh.
Please provide sources. Especially if those monsters are dragons. I need more reading material.
I recently enjoyed “Tooth & Claw” by Jo Walton, maybe you’ll like it too (it’s a Victorian novel set in a world where dragons are the dominant species)
Ehhhh, I think there are probably more YA teen romance love triangle books. It was a really popular genre in the mid-late oughts on the coattails of Twilight, and any remotely popular series that sells well to teen girls is going to gain a massive set of imitators due to small publishers wanting a slice of the (cream)pie.
> Hypothesis: we can replace Yudkowsky with a gpt-3 bot which just generates random hypothesis masquerading as wisdom/insight.
There is another hypothesis which states that this has already happened.
> reinventing tradwife talking points from what they appear to be convinced are first principles
I dunno why this sounds so unbelievable after all the racism.
It's a silly example, in the sense that it doesn't effect much of the real world, but it's one of the ur-sneers. A criticism so true that Yud himself wrote three different blog posts about it: His tendency to take an observation and hare off into a thicket of hypothesis for why that observation is true, when the actual explanation is that the observation is false.
“Hey Wednesday,” said Pugsley. “What’s ‘silver-plattered conflict’?”
“That’s like how all our neighbors think we’re freaks.”
“So, what’s ‘wish fulfillment’?”
“That’s like how everyone who feels that they’re a freak can show up here and be understood.”
Thing scurried over the oaken table, sorting photographs into piles. Wednesday picked up one that showed the two siblings bowing at the conclusion of their school play, their sharp foils gallantly flourished, their costumes and their bodies and the stage awash in blood. She set the picture beside a happy snap of the end of summer camp. She had known burning the village to the ground would be necessary, but she had not anticipated that the mere smell of smoke would call back such joy, all this time later.
“OK,” he said, “but would parents read about us?”
Their parents’ voices emanated from the master bedroom. “Cara mia!” “Mon cher! Oh, mon très, très cher!”
“Mothers would,” said Wednesday.
I like that this implies Yud reads a whole bunch of supernatural romance lit
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Are there really that many novels about women who can’t make up their minds between a vampire and a werewolf, other than Twilight? I suspect there are actually more works about “what if two monsters got married and raised a family of monsters”, tbh.
because there was no anime of Addams Family or Munsters, fool
Yud’s getting closer each day to be the modern Hubbard. Maybe he is already, I just don’t know it yet.
So he build a hypothesis about why the genre
isn’t that popular or well knowndoesn’t exist harder, did he follow up and actually look into it?Hypothesis: we can replace Yudkowsky with a gpt-3 bot which just generates random hypothesis masquerading as wisdom/insight.
using words like ‘pronatalist’ or ‘natalist’ is a hallmark sign of being absolutely out of your gourd
pronatalist lmao
He musta missed Hotel Transylvania.
“Being Human” was close to that .
It’ll catch on in a flash.
He’s not even pronatalist! That’s a relief.
amateur natalist
haha man it gets me every time yud source text is posted here: he’s just so dumb
Yeah, this is a stretch, not much to sneer at here