Someone posted this on ssc with a warning about talking to cops, but really just marvel at what’s going on here.

Aaronson manages to turn a story where he is briefly arrested for a theft (which he did commit on video!) into paragraphs and paragraphs of indulging in his persecution fantasies.

Zero empathy on display for the people he stole from, the people just doing their jobs, or reflection on the fact that it wasn’t a simple little mistake anyone could make but rather… a fairly weird move? Do people usually put change in cups?

  • @blakestaceyMAEnglish
    11•10 months ago

    Likewise, Arthur Chu recently tweeted that he’s “unhappy about [my] continued existence”–i.e., on a straightforward reading, that he wants me to die.

    The tweet was a reply to Aaronson saying (in part),

    Far be it from me to psychoanalyze him, as he constantly does to me, but Chu’s unremitting viciousness doesn’t strike me as coming from a place of any great happiness with his life. So I say: may even Mr. Chu find whatever he’s looking for.

    To which Chu replied,

    I am unhappy about many things, including the continued existence, wealth and social status afforded to men like you, and the cheesy sentimentality is not reciprocated

    I.e., on a straightforward reading, he was talking about “existence” in the sense of lifestyle, not life. (The OED gives “sheltered existence” as an example of this meaning, which I find apt.)