Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

Re fame, he ends up on the orange site often enough: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scottaaronson.com

Wonder if people karma farm there...

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Rational Wiki presents an understanding of reality that I mostly agree with and is thus boring. I want some spicy takes so I’m going to go suck on the firehose of reactionary diarrhoea, but it’s ok because my throat game is too good to let any of it through” type shit

All time banger

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

I'm reasonably certain worse emails exist but they're with sympathetic individuals.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

The slight of hand is that he considers all Jewish hostages to be his last child, and all Palestinian bystanders to be the children of his enemy. Humanism is seeing them all as your children. Scott seems to have discovered what we might call "race-ism."

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

The amazing part about his deranged homicidal metaphor is that it would work exactly the same way if you were using it to argue in favor of Hamas. I knew this guy had issues, I even felt bad for him, but the brainworms have clearly won. Hate is intoxicating and one should not indulge in it to this degree lest one lose one's humanity.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah I used to think he was a brilliant manipulator but I actually listened to some of his words and yeah he's just bonkers and has enough money that it doesn't matter that he's bonkers.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Even just transcribing these and hosting them is extremely helpful, thanks.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Only things that a hidden camera can do.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Man I thought this was gonna be about the very real dilemma about what is to be done with ICE and other political vanguards if libs ever get power again while trying to come out the other side with some semblance of rule of law and respect for institutions. And the plain fact is that by weaponizing the government to the degree they have, the Trump administration has made it very difficult to ever return to a place where it's not weaponized.

But her long winded defense of the doge boys undermines her point. They're not 'smart young boys', they're worms who's vile crime will stain us for generations.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

This is a massive loss. At this point we need specific legislation. Insane to grant fair use to a for-profit copier that provides no benefit to the owner of the copied item and competes with it in the market. I cannot overstate how shitty this is.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He doesn't believe in Germ theory. He's utterly deranged. The grift is alternative medicine, but I don't know if he really understands that it's a grift. His bosses surely do, but they just want to inflict as much punishment on institutions as possible.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 1 points 3 months ago

Had people concern trolling about this guy repeatedly on Reddit. It's like bro he was on the Human Biodiversity Institute mailing list and all but brags about race science at Harvard in his trump-fluffing NYT piece.

 

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but so far the choice line is:

I like how you just dropped the “Vance is interested in right authoritarianism” like it’s a known fact to base your entire point on. Vance is the clearest demonstration of a libertarian the republicans have in high office. It’s an absurd ad hominem that you try to mask in your wall of text.

 

The actually not even really a hatchet job NYT piece on SlateScott that mostly just called him a weird little guy has nonetheless created a festering psychic wound that oozes to this day. Here manifests as an interview with the author on LW. See also: discussion on reddit.

My favorite section, talking about how people are mad that be brought up Scott's notorious race stuff™️:

CM: That's great. That's a valid position. There are other valid positions where people say, we need to not go so close to that, because it's dangerous and there's a slippery slope. The irony of this whole situation is that some people who feel that I should not have gone there, who think I should not explore the length and breadth of that situation, are the people who think you should always go there.

 

Hounding the president of Harvard out of a job because you think she's a DEI hire is one thing, but going after a Billionaire's wife? How dare these journalists! What big bullies.

Bonus downplaying of EA's faults. He of course phrases the Bostrom affair as someone being "accused" of sending a racist email, as if there were any question as to who sent it, or if it was racist. And acts like it's not just the cherry on top of a lifetime of Bostrom's work.

 

Utilitarian brainworms or one of the many very real instances of a homicidal parent going after their disabled child? I can't decide, but it's a depressing read.

May end up on SRD, but you read it here first.

 

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?

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