Well this expands the lore a bit, I thought being a nerd was about
having certain interests and focusing to much about it, but nope it is
calipers related. A new subspecies of human.
Love how he confuses the casual link with allergies. Yes allergies
are caused by being indoors, not the other way around were allergies
cause a preference for being indoors.
Also funny that people bring up a counter argument ‘jocks are tense’
but that just gets deflected and rolled into the theory.
https://mobile.twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1487000733597638660
"Why do nerds have that voice? Why don't nerds like sports? When did I fall through the temporal barrier and become trapped in a raunchy 1980s comedy movie?"
'Im good at math, that means im good at all other fields'. Stem brain disease, sadly it cannot be cured, the symptoms can only be treated. But it is very hard to treat Stem brainers as they think they know better.
(Like not examining if all the bullshit media portrayals of nerds vs jocks are actually true. Iirc there was a bit of a wave of interest in hacker/programmer culture for martial arts. And I certainly know a lot of nerdy people who are into that, or just HEMA).
there's an entire world of propaganda (a small subset of which this sub is dedicated to making fun of) that exists to push this type of person further and further right. it's no accident.
Minus the “touch computers” part, you’ve just described a colleague of mine who lost their apartment and dropped out of a full-ride scholarship to a pretty amazing medical school program and eventually went broke investing in crypto.
This person is *constantly* a narcissistic pest, beating their chest about their intellect, independence and ability to “pay attention to things no one else notices”. Just like that, one day they’re talking about bored apes and “flips” and “anyone who doesn’t get in on this now is an idiot”.
Much wow. Very intellect.
Get off the crypto sites and pay your fucking rent.
> This person is constantly a narcissistic pest, beating their chest about their intellect, independence and ability to “pay attention to things no one else notices”.
These people are pretty good marks (as in targets for a confidence trick) I would think. Esp if they are also a bit greedy. So no big surprise they got into crypto. And lol for investing in crypto during the NFT era. That is a bit like going 'hey I heard about this new cool thing, called the internet' and then fully investing in [pets.com](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com) in October of 2000.
> These people are pretty good marks (as in targets for a confidence trick) I would think.
I don't know if you saw that Folding Ideas documentary about NFTs that made the rounds (probably still is, [here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g) if you haven't), but there's an entire section where the documentary creator talks about the psychopathy of people who get pulled into the world of NFTs, and the people who pull others into it and...
...tldr: yeah you're more or less right.
I have seen the vid, it is very good. I even learned somethings I didn't even know.
Good to see (for folding ideas) that the video is doing so well, apparently he had a pretty bad time making and finishing it.
And well there is also just a subset of people who get drawn into NFTs and cryptocurrencies for other reasons (fear of missing out, taking a chance to get out of their poverty, etc etc). And we should be very careful to go 'well they bought in they deserve to be scammed'. Esp as this is a part of confidence tricks as well, they do extra well because most victims are also afraid to admit they got scammed. The narcissists will not admit being tricked of course, but for non-narcissists or people with lesser narcissistic tendencies not condemning that they got tricked helps them to spread the word and hopefully this prevents others from being scammed. (It gets more complicated of course, because in MLM schemes the victim is also the victimizer of others).
Well stated. I certainly will not be the type of person to cast aspersions on someone aspiring for a way out of poverty or even a way to just general financial independence from whatever shackles they seek refuge from. *Raises glass* Damn the man, save the empire.
But son of a bitch the schadenfreude will be very hard to contain when the kinds of people who see themselves as digital 'financial lords' and walk around with their noses up in the air, insulting people who choose to sit out on the NFT craze as being 'idiots' who are 'just going to get left behind' end up losing it all when the inevitable hack comes along or the inevitable data leak gets published or inevitable vulnerability gets exploited.
Just like Folding Ideas said, none of this shit is doing anything to equalize financial power, it's merely a digital manifestation of the same ladders of greed and avarice as the legacy finance systems.
(edit: offtopic, your username is cracking me tf up)
Have a good weekend bud, enjoyed having an actually agreeable discussion on reddit for a change. If you'll excuse me, I got about a foot of snow to get shoveled.
> username
It is a reference to Shadowrun. I actually picked it as a nickname before I even knew the soylent green and budweiser references. So in a way it is a reference to my own ignorance, my own mistakes, and that I shouldn't be taking myself too seriously.
The past few years have been annoying however, when the fucking word 'soy' became a culture war thing (and I became more militantly political left wing online I guess).
Good luck murdering the snow.
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Also, nerd culture has effectively won out, and it’s now the dominant culture. Maybe you got picked on in the 1980s if you read comic books at school, I’m too young to know first hand, but now Marvel is topping the box office damn near every month. A cyberpunk game was the most anticipated release of last year, and video games are roughly equal to music in sales. Nerd culture won out.
He got posted here before and I found myself doing a short dive to work out who he is, but yeah this basically it, except that /u/seadjinn skips over that yeah he’s got some biggish online rationalist connects
Yea he was posted about here before with a big long TMI twitter thread about how he kept living off his parents money and felt really bad about it for not supporting himself, then he ate some L and decided to keep taking their money or something along those lines. Tbh i felt kinda bad about how twisted up his mind was
At one point I was getting a degree in physics, is where my general dislike comes from, haha.
I don't really know Twitter very much, I was on it for a while a little over a year ago, but that's it.
I think it’s a general problem that experts suffer from, especially ones that have continually been told that they’re smart.
I think engineers get the worst of it because they couple years of being told they’re smart with a general lower level of social skills. (Note: I’m an engineer). This makes those interactions worse.
Also we're the side of STEM that's less about finding out how or why things are the way they are, and more about making them the way we want them to be. The mindset doesn't always handle uncertainty well.
Yeah, I was straying towards that mindset in my late teens and early twenties. The only thing that saved me was being around people who were a lot more knowledgeable than me, especially in subjects I wasn't too familiar with.
Ended up humbling me a lot. Getting trounced over and over hurts to begin with, but it hurts a lot less when you don't have to support a massive ego.
Except that engineering students form social groups and cliques and relationships and adult engineers form professional networks so as an autisticperson I believe I need connections
Most of the men in my lab working towards computing. PhDs and Masters are anywhere from fit to ripped. I also know a lot of tech people who slut around a bit in alt scenes like goth. That has not been my experience everywhere I’ve been in computing, but yeah the classic nerd archetype just isn’t that pervasive past high school in my experience.
Yes, this is why depictions of Chad are the way that they are. He’s
just sprawling out like the ape that he is, he is absolutely ready to
gracefully handle a fall
Honestly, this actually makes me kind of sad. I hope this guy is able
to get himself some therapy and find a way to be happy with himself and
realize that stereotypes from bad 80s movies are not immutable truths of
the universe.
Wrong. Nerd voice and nerd face are caused by mouth breathing, which
is caused by the nerd’s inability to countenance taking antihistamines
(calcification of the IQ gland). Plus the nerd’s nerdy parents keeping
an excessively clean house (total nerd move, Chads live in filth) which
causes allergies.
This was all revealed to me in a dream. The hereditary nature of
nerdery squares with such documentaries as Back to the Future 2.
After reinventing eschatology and idealism, now Rationalists reinvent
also radical asceticism, where mortifying the body is the only way to
cultivate the soul brain and vice versa. Their fantasy knows
no limit, except the ones of the pop culture they grew up with and that
fits their victim complex.
Correlation/causation adds another body to the pile, which of these
ideas is more likely?
“My predisposition to forward head posture + tight hips is a
postural manifestation of my intrinsic capabilities at computer tasks,
which is why I’m so good at programming.”
“My body hurts because I’m always on the computer”
I prescribe mandatory exposure to non-computer nerds. Partner dancers
are just as annoying but I’m told they need to move in order to do their
hobby. Perhaps we can save one?
hold on, I need to take a hit
Releasing chronic tension lets you go from Steve Urkel to Stefan Urquelle
i uncritically think that everything i’ve seen in movies growing up is a true representation of reality. i am very smart. 1/
Well this expands the lore a bit, I thought being a nerd was about having certain interests and focusing to much about it, but nope it is calipers related. A new subspecies of human.
Love how he confuses the casual link with allergies. Yes allergies are caused by being indoors, not the other way around were allergies cause a preference for being indoors.
Also funny that people bring up a counter argument ‘jocks are tense’ but that just gets deflected and rolled into the theory. https://mobile.twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1487000733597638660
E: inspired by this post, reminder to check your posture.
feels like he’s coming into this one with some assumptions, huh
This guy used to be a legend on mathoverflow, what the fuck happened?
Haha this reply:
Honestly, this actually makes me kind of sad. I hope this guy is able to get himself some therapy and find a way to be happy with himself and realize that stereotypes from bad 80s movies are not immutable truths of the universe.
Wrong. Nerd voice and nerd face are caused by mouth breathing, which is caused by the nerd’s inability to countenance taking antihistamines (calcification of the IQ gland). Plus the nerd’s nerdy parents keeping an excessively clean house (total nerd move, Chads live in filth) which causes allergies.
This was all revealed to me in a dream. The hereditary nature of nerdery squares with such documentaries as Back to the Future 2.
After reinventing eschatology and idealism, now Rationalists reinvent also radical asceticism, where mortifying the body is the only way to cultivate the
soulbrain and vice versa. Their fantasy knows no limit, except the ones of the pop culture they grew up with and that fits their victim complex.What a dork
Correlation/causation adds another body to the pile, which of these ideas is more likely?
I prescribe mandatory exposure to non-computer nerds. Partner dancers are just as annoying but I’m told they need to move in order to do their hobby. Perhaps we can save one?
Shit maybe not.
That sounds very proFap