pja

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[–] pja@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

I already wasn’t going to read this screed, but now I’m definitely not going to read it. Sheesh.

 

Looks like it might actually have happened.

[–] pja@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

who tf is this?

They’re a self-described gay, furry ex-mormon who seem to have latched onto the rat & rat-adjacent communities (like EA) in the hope of finding a substitute for the certainty they used to find in religion. Last I heard they work for the Blocked&Reported podcast, i.e. Jesse Singal et al., alongside their job in the US military. (edit: their Twitter claims they’re a law clerk? I guess they moved on.)

On the surface they seem well meaning but naïve, the company they keep (perhaps) being a reflection of that.

[–] pja@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For the rat & rat-adjacent soi-disant “communities” David is like the bogeyman. You see his name used in places like SSC to stand in for the otherwise nameless woke menace that’s coming for their precious bodily fluids.

[–] pja@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

I regret to inform you that Trace is hate-reading awful.systems too & has posted this comment on their Twitter.

You’d think these people would have learned by now that there’s no upside in them spending their precious time on this earth obsessing over why a group of people don’t like them, but nevertheless here they are: drawn like moths to the flame.

[–] pja@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

Prolix insanity is kind of a Rationalist / Rat-adjacent calling card.

[–] pja@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

This is going to be a banger, I can feel it.

[–] pja@awful.systems 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

neoreactionary harem with stack ranking

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

[–] pja@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.

I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.

[–] pja@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago (9 children)

^F David Gerard

Imagine one day David Gerard of /r/SneerClub said, "Eliezer Yudkowsky is a white supremacist!" And you replied: "No, I'm not! That's a lie." And imagine E.T. Jaynes was still alive...

I‘m impressed at the way you still manage to live rent free in these chud’s heads. The bogeyman is real if you’re a rationalist apparently & his name is D.Gerard.

[–] pja@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Demanding that EY et al define “woman” for them so that they can know whether or not they can transition is simultaneously hilarious and deeply sad.

 

Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.

 

It will not surprise you at all to find that they protest just a tad too much.

See also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZjXtjRQaD2b4PAser/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning

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