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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 hours ago

yes scott we know you are

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 hours ago
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Guess I’m A Rationalist Now
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A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl…
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    HN is being … surprisingly on point with this one. Choice quotes:

    “However, reading this article about all these people at their “Galt’s Gultch”, I thought — “oh, I guess he’s a rhinoceros now” ” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317651

    “It’s very telling that some of them went full “false modesty” by naming sites like “LessWrong”, when you just know they actually mean “MoreRight” ” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44319387

    “I feel like I’m witnessing something that Adam Curtis would cover in the last part of The Century of Self, in real time.” — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317313

    etc etc.

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      s/o to one of the comments basically saying that Scott is the Simone de Beauvoir of rationalism

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