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as always, the orange site would rather carry water for right-wing weirdos than admit rationalwiki is right (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 2 years ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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RationalWiki is a highly biased cancel community which has attacked people like Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander before.

Background on the authors according to a far-left website.

Let's at least be honest.

That is profiling work. (Not just "Ad hominem".)

The clash with the name "rational-wiki" is too strong not to be noted.

as the infrastructure admin of a highly biased far-left cancel community that attacks people like Scott Aaronson and Scott Alexander: mmm delicious

for bonus sneers, see the entire rest of the thread for the orange site’s ideas on why they don’t need therapy:

I was about to start psychotherapy last month, I ask my family's friend therapist If he could recommend me where to go. So he interviewed me for about 30 mins and ask me about all my problems.

A week later he send me the number of the therapist. I didnt write her yet, I think I dont need it as badly as before.

Those 30 mins were key. I am highly introspective and logical, I only needed to orderly speak my problems.

to quote Key & Peele: motherfucker, that’s called a job

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[–] raktheundead@fedia.io 10 points 2 years ago

The problem, as always, is not that the likes of Aaronson and Siskind are being "attacked" - it's that they're not being criticised enough. In a more reasonable world, they'd have been laughed out of the room years ago.