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[Anonymous No.17563175]

This is Scott Alexander Siskind, the most preeminent rationalist philospher of our age and slayer of the New York Times. Say something nice about him.

[Anonymous No.17563200]

he looks like a baby man

[Anonymous No.17563201]

He gave Moldbug the opportunity for a savage dunk

[Anonymous No.17563215]

As the deal with rationalism and autism? A read somewhere that rationalist community has alot of autist. Besides that, Scott is based as fuck, at least, his writing.

[Anonymous No.17563219]

what's with the pedo necklace

[Anonymous No.17563228]

Really scummy how the NYT doxxed him like that.
>>17563219
So Sega is full of pedos?

[Anonymous No.17563232]

>>17563219
/pol/ has informed me that the spiral has to be triangular

[Anonymous No.17563239]

>>17563228
yeah probably

[Anonymous No.17563240]

>>17563232
>spiral
>triangular

Kek, the absolute state, truly the political elite of the internet.

[Anonymous No.17563241]

>>17563228
Why would you put a screen on the controller

[Anonymous No.17563267]

>>17563240
like this. it's a much less common shape than a normal spiral but you still see it in so many places that it offers a lot of schizo fodder. There is a real connection though, the effbeeeye actually list it as a known symbol.

[Anonymous No.17563385]

What are some core rationalist reading bros?

[Anonymous No.17563431]

>>17563385
I take it Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and something they call the Sequences is the core.

[Anonymous No.17563455]

why does he look like that

[Anonymous No.17563453]

>>17563431
>a fucking harry potter fanfic is the canon for a rationalist movement

What the fuck?

[Anonymous No.17563588]

>>17563385

from slatestarcodex: meditations on moloch, toxoplasma of rage, i can tolerate anything except the outgroup

also gwern, lesswrong, marginal revolution, slow boring

[Anonymous No.17563594]

>>17563455
Because he is Jewish.

[Anonymous No.17563607]

>>17563594
in other words, i was right about the necklace

[Anonymous No.17563621]

>>17563175
he looks exactly how you would expect him to look, why is that LOL

[Anonymous No.17563624]

>>17563175
What's with the pedo necklace

[Anonymous No.17563648]

>>17563201
I thought moldbug was pretty nice to him.
>>17563175
So, why would you go through all the trouble of becoming a psychiatrist just to grab the ring of controversial blogging? Is the payday for his blogging partly advertising for his practice?
To me, the whole point of a medical career is it provides reliably high income over several decades of time, whereas getting controversial and famous over the course of a decade pretty much guarantees a few big paydays while probably kneecapping his long term professional viability. Eventually he's either going to get denounced as a racist by liberal institutions OR everyone's going to realize how cringe and aspie his thoughts are and just be embarrassed for him.
Not to mention how he's publicized his weird polyamorous asexual nature.
Seems his choices are rather... irrational.
Methinks he might have gotten caught up in momentum with the rest of the rationalists and lost sight of his own best interest.

[Anonymous No.17563702]

>>17563648
i mean, people like to do stuff. he started blogging while he was a resident, doubt he thought his readership would grow to the point where he's being cancelled by the nyt.

[Anonymous No.17563726]

>>17563702
You'd think he would be able to identify what was going on and back out though.

[Anonymous No.17563761]

>>17563175
>slayer of the New York Times
Not really. His defense boiled down to, "but these insinuations about me aren't true." He didn't challenge NYT's right to attack him in the event that the insinuations actually were true. (And many of them are, of course, but he chooses his words carefully most of the time.)

His first Substack post made an argument of that nature. It seems like his response following the release of the article walked it back and got down in the mud with them, which is a losing game.

[Anonymous No.17563792]

>>17563453
The Californian rationalists don't really have anything to do with the original school of rationalism. Their whole movement formed around the blog of a Jewish crackpot who never even attended high school and built his whole philosophy from scratch around his obsession with Bayes' theorem. Incidentally this is why Californian rationalist writings are filled with weird jargon. Yudkowsky (the aforementioned crackpot) was ignorant of most philosophical thought preceding him, but well versed in pop culture, especially Harry Potter of course. He and his followers merely started to call themselves "rationalists," because they perceived themselves to be more rational than all those dumb peasants around them.

[Anonymous No.17563868]

What exactly is controversial about this guy other than the NYT shit? Has he said something that made him an enemy in the eyes of the liberal establishment?

[Anonymous No.17563912]

>>17563792
it's just a hilarious dramatization of the underlying silicon valley mindset.

[Anonymous No.17563940]

>>17563868
Scott is a liberal heretic who has written critically about feminism and wokeism in general and has allowed alt righters to participate in the comment section of his blog instead of ban hammering them.

[Anonymous No.17563944]

>>17563868
the establishment can't control the rationalists. the rationalists haven't been a direct problem in the past, but of course the space of allowable thought and behaviour is rapidly shrinking.
when the rationalists think, they do so on a different foundation than when harvard or the NYT thinks (or tries to do so). therefore they're dangerous.

[Anonymous No.17563968]

>>17563648
you're a moron. a complete fucking retard. the MAJOR issue with you is that you're completely unaware of it. really you should fucking kill yourself. never post again fucking retard. all your takes are completely fucking worthless. faggots like you ruin /lit/ more than any frogposter. you will never have an interesting thought or opinion. all you do here is that you shit up /lit/ while being too big of a retard to realize it.

[Anonymous No.17564004]

>>17563868
Here's a couple quotes of his
>The only public figure I can think of in the southeast quadrant with me is Charles Murray.
>I feel pretty okay about both being sort of a libertarian and writing an essay arguing against libertarianism, because the world generally isn't libertarian enough but the sorts of people who read long online political essays generally are way more libertarian than can possibly be healthy.

[Anonymous No.17564039]

>>17563792
Actually bro, you got some things right, but overall a vary simplification and extremely biased against the movement.

[Anonymous No.17564044]

>>17563940
In other words, he's not really an interesting thinker at all, mainstream media just likes to pick weaker targets in order to retain some semblance of media power.

[Anonymous No.17564125]

>>17563726
He kind of did, when his blog really blew up in the middle of the 10s he started reining in the more edgy material.

[Anonymous No.17564151]

>>17563453
That post is conflating rationalism in general with lesswrong, the Yudkowsky robot sex-cult. And iirc Scott Alexander does not identify himself as a rationalist at all but just has a lot of rationalist readers.

[Anonymous No.17564178]

>>17564151
>iirc Scott Alexander does not identify himself as a rationalist at all
He is a self admitted fanboy of Yudkowski and has characterized rationalism as "the belief that Eliezer Yudkowsky is the rightful caliph." Tongue-in-cheek, of course, but Scott absolutely is part of that sphere.

[Anonymous No.17564206]

>>17563241
It was a different era

[Anonymous No.17564211]

>>17564039
How do you take a movement serious that quivers in fear of the mention of Roko's basilisk?

[Anonymous No.17564265]

>>17564211
>>17563792


Actually I've met some real rationalist from less wrong and all. To their credits they are really really smart, not larping, but for real, they very smart, but very very awkward and somewhat autistic, some are more, other less, overall they a very nice bunch, that think through alot of things, very open minded. Never met big Yud himself. And yes, they work somewhat very different from the average "peasant", they are ver efficient on the thing they put their minds on. Not alot of women, 99,9% male, 0,01% some very uber autistic women, besides Aella, that bitch is just a mentally unstable hoe.

[Anonymous No.17564270]

>>17563175
his face makes me wanna fart

[Anonymous No.17564278]

>>17563228
yes? they are behind the cesspool of degeneracy that is the sonic fandom, how can they be anything but pedos

[Anonymous No.17564512]

>>17564178
Is spelling Yudkowsky's name with an i a diss of some kind? Maybe some Jewish thing I don't understand? I see it spelled that way all the time, and maybe it's just a persistent misspelling, but I'd think you would notice the correct spelling after quoting it within the same sentence.

[Anonymous No.17564533]

>>17563175
I think it was a good idea to shave it all off. No wonder he is a rationalist.

[Anonymous No.17564543]

Did his blog get deleted thought?
Has anyone read it?

[Anonymous No.17564563]

>>17564543
Lurk more, bro.

[Anonymous No.17564607]

>>17563968
Wait are you genuinely mad? Use your words.

[Anonymous No.17564609]

>>17564211
I don't take it seriously but it's a kind of cool idea

[Anonymous No.17564699]

He looks like a Royalty-free 3D asset

[Anonymous No.17564757]

>>17563648
>I thought moldbug was pretty nice to him.
That's what makes it so savage

[Anonymous No.17564796]

Do him and moldbug really hate each other or is it just friendly banter?