Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles — LessWrong
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> It was not the sight of Mitchum that made him sit still in horror. It was the realization that there was no one he could call to expose this thing…

content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

  • Sailor Sega SaturnEnglish
    18•4 months ago

    Another meandering manifesto from Zach hoping that trans women would stop existing so that we stop tempting him with the prospect of actually maybe being happy for once.

    To clear this up once and for all ‘she’ is a very solid category with a fixed and unchanging logical definition which can be derived via straightforward Bayesian reasoning and should only be used to refer to the following and anyone who disagrees HATES MATH:

    1. Boats
    2. Cars
    3. A swedish chiptune artist (obligatory music link)
    4. She-Slimes from the dragon quest series of videogames (fun fact: male She-slimes have the ability to undergo slimification and form a King she-slime when eight gather together!)
    5. Ladies (a lady is of course a title that can be used by anyone who kneads bread, per etymology online)
    • @SoyweiserEnglish
      5•4 months ago

      anyone who kneads bread

      I got that reference

      • @swlabrEnglish
        5•4 months ago

        I would like an explanation, please!

        • @SoyweiserEnglish
          6•4 months ago

          There was a twitter or bsky post talking about how lords comes from ‘person who guards the bread’ and ladies from ‘person who kneads the bread’. let me see if I can find it.

          e: twitter sadly

          • @swlabrEnglish
            6•4 months ago

            Ahh, gotcha. This is what I get for not being active on the birdsite.