2026-08-24 20:38 UTC
I'm sure that if I looked up Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality on #YouTube I'd find dozens, hundreds, maybe THOUSANDS of well-argued refutations of Yudkowsky's ideology as explicated in his #HarryPotter fanfic. But there'd be ever so much more sycophantic praise and lengthy orations about Yudkowsky's genius, because sentimental hogwash is the element in which "conservatives" swim.
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:43
I can't overstress the degree to which the habitual discourse of the "intellectuals" favored by #tech sector geeklords, in spite of all the "rationalism" or because of it, is strictly a matter of strong emotions. They don't write out logical syllogisms. They write soppy eulogies about how logic and Science™ are amazing and the answer to all life's problems, seasoned with various festering hatreds. (cont'd)