lobotomy42

joined 1 year ago
[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My god some spectacularly bad takes on here. The top-rated one is just bananas-level stupid:

While there may be a substantial worldview gap, I suspect the much larger difference is that most Sneer Clubbers are looking to boost their status by trying to bully anyone who looks like a vulnerable target, and being different, as LessWrong is, is enough to qualify.

Yes, that's right. I spend my time boosting my status by (checks notes) commenting on the internet.

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

I'll go one further: "intelligence" as conceived by "IQ" is a mostly meaningless concept and the word, when used in everyday English, mostly just means "agrees with me"

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

This shit is just as bad, frankly. The quest to quantify and then rank All The Things is inherently dangerous.

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

If you spend your money on a yacht, people say “cool yacht”.

I was going to say, I have never heard a single human soul in my decades upon this earth say "cool yacht."

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don’t actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

(Not to be trivially reductionist, but...) Because admitting you want friends is unmasculine. IBTP

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

I think the simplest explanation is that it appeals to their urge to ruthlessly quantify all human interactions, including statements about their worldview.

[–] lobotomy42@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, yes, but I feel like they at least put in some effort to give it a veneer of seriousness / normality. This struck me as being exceptional in its "we are right and you should go do this" tone with no effort whatsoever at quoting a dissenting voice.

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