Sam harris almost reeled me in when I discovered him long ago, (don’t judge me I was doing a lot of drinking, ok?) until the moment he started talking about how torture can be justified and I was like “lol ok no thank you”
I definitely don’t judge, when I discovered the “rationalist” community I was super interested at first too. But the biases show themselves over time, and in such an obvious way.
PragerU is another one I’m embarrassed to say I was subscribed to for about a month. It’s mostly news-based now but it used to present moreso as “Educational YouTube”, which, sure, great, I added it to my collection…until I watched a couple episodes.
Sam harris almost reeled me in when I discovered him long ago, (don’t judge me I was doing a lot of drinking, ok?) until the moment he started talking about how torture can be justified and I was like “lol ok no thank you”
Anyway I learned a lot since and fuck that guy
I definitely don’t judge, when I discovered the “rationalist” community I was super interested at first too. But the biases show themselves over time, and in such an obvious way.
PragerU is another one I’m embarrassed to say I was subscribed to for about a month. It’s mostly news-based now but it used to present moreso as “Educational YouTube”, which, sure, great, I added it to my collection…until I watched a couple episodes.
We live and we learn, I think I can take some pride in immediately checking out once the hate started coming up!