2026-08-24 20:32 UTC
Hence the fundamental premise of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is, I suggest, in bad faith: Yudkowsky wants to present the appearance of logical disputation and dialectical materialism (by writing fiction about it) without any actual willingness to risk his ideas in debate.
#Debate therefore has become a doublethinkful, deceitful word in contemporary parlance.
(cont'd)
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:34
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. (cont'd)