Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post, thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
So, a lesswrong suggests gathering āThe Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject,ā where ātacit knowledgeā is defined as āknowledge that canāt properly be transmitted via verbal or written instructionā. The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under āFinanceā are Keith āRoaring Kittyā Gill of GameStop fameā¦ and Martin Shkreli.
The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it canāt be explained in written words.
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it strikes me that thereās quite a similarity in how the lesswrongs have this continuous drive for so-called āsecret knowledgeā to how others are about sacred geometry and āhidden universe secretsā. anyone else pick up on something like that?
I think of it as an evolved version of what a lot of the new age cults did with quantum woo ā itās a thin veneer of knowledge designed to trick folks who think theyāre too smart for religion into a religious mindset. the Rationalist version of the veneer is particularly thick, but the end goal is the same: Magic is Real and You Can Be The Gandalf
alright so definitely not an isolated observation :) and yeah thatās well put
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Shkreli is probably good for teaching you how to use Excel at 90wpm?