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Anonymous asked:

Its neat to see you interacting with mitigatedchaos since I think of you two as being in completely disparate tumblr circles

kissingerandpals answered:

I’m inside a lot of distinct Tumblr circles apparently. I suppose my dashboard is more of a Venn diagram really.

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Used to have more interactions with rationalist Tumblr but if argumate’s not reblogging my posts it just doesn’t happen anymore

Really, I think of it as more of a hexagon -

I mean yeah.  I seem to be drawing in mostly Rationalists and Rat-Adjacents.  I’m probably closer to the edges than some of the others.  At least I think it counts as that circle.  I don’t have, say, e*nationalism or rtri*e following me.

On the other hand, seeing as you terminated your blog and remade it, is Argumate even following you anymore?

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fluffshy said: How are you not involved? You have acted as the core of my experience of the social side of rationalists for months.

as far as I know the rationalists hang out on Facebook and the SSC comment section and in the Bay Area and at various meetups in cities around the world, which I’m not involved in.

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The set of Rationalists is defined as such:

  • Eliezer Yudkowsky is in the set of Rationalists.
  • Anyone who argues with a member of the set of Rationalists is in the set of Rationalists.

The proof of your membership in the set is left as an exercise for the reader.

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We here at the Mitigated Chaos blog like to post good, relatable content that’s in touch with honest working joes, such as attempting to bait rationalists into arguing whether using cybernetics to transform yourself into a fetishized cyborg spider monster is beneficial to the economy.

Truly, this blog has its finger on the pulse of America.

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This pisses me off so, so much. Warning: what follows is not very calm. Probably not very charitable either. I write “fuck” a lot.

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< caring about opinions being actually good vs being seen to be good >

 Well, there’s your answer right there, isn’t it?

Scott may be the Rightful Caliph (or a contender for the position) within Rationalism and its Adjacency, but outside of our sphere, he has all sorts of markers that are low-status, or are tribal low-status, and he poses a danger to a lot of people that are farming status through toxic takes.

I mean, imagine if Rationalism became the new normal.  Sure, this would probably crash a lot of metaphorical trains and the results would be observable in the global GDP, but one of the trains that got crashed would be most of the established Commentariat, their pundits, the outrage-farming, clickbaiting and so on.

New ones would likely develop in the aftermath, because Rationalism doesn’t actually remove all sorts of base human emotions.  However, the new ones would be different people.  

Scott’s social status is zero sum with these people.  His gain is their loss.  They’re going to attack, attack, attack.  They may not even fully know why they’re doing it.

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Technically, “you’re a hypocrite” is a logical fallacy when it comes to arguments.

So why does everyone make that argument?

Because, in a social context, if you can make your opponent stick to a moral rule while you don’t, you can gain an advantage over them.

Additionally, if even the advocates of a project don’t really believe in it, there is a reasonable heuristic that it can’t be such a great project.

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Anonymous asked:

what is Rattumblr?

Rationalist Tumblr.  Don’t let the name fool you - it’s less “YES, WE ARE MORE RATIONAL THAN YOU”, and more a term for a community of people originally congregated at the site Less Wrong, then SlateStarCodex, and then kind of spread out, and the group of people who argue with those people.

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One thing I really love about you weird internet nerds here on Rationalist Tumblr is your lower-than-average level of hypocrisy.

Basically all of you who would be skeptical about granting legitimacy to right-wing vigilantes in the after-effects of politically-motivated vehicular homicide by one of the right’s outgroups are also skeptical about granting legitimacy to left-wing vigilantes in the aftermath of politically-motivated vehicular homicide by one of the left’s outgroups.

You are all doing much better than what I’m seeing on Facebook right now.

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Anonymous asked:

Just wrote a script that printed out "Scott is a Neoreactionary" 10000 times. Now we shall finally find out what the platonic ideal form of rightwing-ness is.

You didn’t know?

Scott is already the most powerful Neoreactionary that has ever lived.  

Even from within the tenth circle of the seventh star of the dark sun, chained in magical bindings by the Eight Scholars of Justice Eternal, pursued relentlessly by the Harbingers of Anti-Fate, his power leaks through into our world, disguised as “steelmanned” defenses of Liberalism.

Every word uttered in his true form converts ten children to the principles of sidereal nationalism.  It is through only his whispers that the one known as Moldbug came to Awakeness.  His mere gaze shatters all known forms of modernity.

He cannot stop, and he cannot be stopped.

It was the breaking of the fifth seal, causing parts of our world to come unmoored from Time, which allowed me to enter the past and spread my message of darkness.

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theonion: “SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass....
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SAN FRANCISCO—In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now.

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