2026-08-24 20:34 UTC
The #tech sector and the elite #programming and #computing culture are boiling over with nerdbros who babble about "debate" and "logic" and "rationality" while--exactly like E. Z. Yudkowsky--preferring the monologue as their method of discourse. They're isolated, insular, frankly very lonely people who out of psychological necessity have convinced themselves that they ought to be able to reason out the nature of reality without leaving their computer desk.
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:36
There's scarcely any genuine debate among these right-wing nerds because they've a priori ruled out most of accepted and collectively decided human knowledge as "woke" and corrupted by Marxism and so forth. Their fanatical anticommunism has eaten away at their intellects to the point that they're now coming up with half-assed reinventions of existing fields and concepts, because they refuse to engage with the larger intellectual community. (more)