I can only assume the vibes were rancid
some rat-on-rat friendly fire
There’s intense arrogance to insisting that your existence is too fragile to be shown to the world, while also believing that you are what needs to be injected into the human vat of lifestream, while looking like the byproduct of a 12 year old who snuck into his dad’s liquor cabinet and fucked around with the Skyrim character creator. Doubly so when you have the mental discipline of a literally sophomoric dilettante, or when it’s unclear that your personality genetics would translate to someone the rest of the world would want to talk to for more than a few hours.
in what i assume is part where he talks about why no one wants to fuck rationalists (i’m just skimming this shit)
that’s a broadly applicable burn, but is also clearly about an individual he hates
that’s about EY?
he’s also an anti-privacy/pro-surveillance advocate, i guess he just wants to doxx his personal enemies (everyone) (there’s definitely nothing to do with meth, no sire)
how much of a piece of shit can you physically fit in a single person?
I’d call it about 25 blivets*.
*A blivet is 10 pounds of shit stuffed into a five pound sack.
Oh. My. God.
i’ve just realized - the endless prose is drug-fuelled. blog post part vii == i am doing drugs and cannot stop typing
“endless drug-fueled prose about drugs” is an entire, unfortunate subgenre of Rationalist authorship. it takes them a surprisingly long time (usually a couple years or so) to spiral out and stop posting, but the posts usually get even less coherent as they approach burnout
The story goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the second draft of “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde” in less than a week while buzzing on cocaine. The Rationalists just write obnoxious blog posts.
The famous story about a man using a drug that sets free the a-hole version of himself?
Oh, that was the drug! It was cocaine all along!
that’s because they don’t have coke, they have adderall and their own farts
I’m gonna risk coming off too harsh and say this gaggle of meth microdosing ratfucks don’t deserve rehab, they deserve to rot in jail. Fuck them.
Thats Eigan’s wife he’s talking about btw.
lol was this before or after he posted “what i’m about to post is not an endorsement of chattel slavery” and then posted exactly that?
Before if I understand the beef here correctly.
Of course I ignore your warnings and proceed to read this shit from the beginning.
And before you say, as many people I’m sure will, that language changes or evolves and so forth: shall I presume many of you have no objection to being called ‘nazis’ in the standard twitter-left definition? Shall I treat all drunk sex as ‘rape’ because kidnapper-rape and frat-sex have the commonality of reduced consent? Shall I treat your remarks about this-or-that group as ‘hate speech’, or ‘violence’, in the form of speech? Clearly, we have some sense by which concept creep exists; by which definitions can be stretched dishonestly. That is what you’re doing, and you know what you’re doing.
Cool. Cool. This is fun.
I already wasn’t going to read this screed, but now I’m definitely not going to read it. Sheesh.
I REALLY don’t wanna rank rapes, but isn’t frat rape an archetypal rape? It’s unambiguously terrible to the point that the only defense the perpetrators can mount is that it didn’t happen. This is like decrying the expansion of murder to include defenstration along side the more traditional bludgeoning and stabbing.
I REALLY don’t wanna rank rapes
However, rationalists do! paella recently did. She got over 5000 responses. https://aella.substack.com/p/the-rape-spectrum-survey-results (tw: rape obviously, paella, idk prolly other stuff i just looked at the graphic) (not fixing this autocorrect)
there’s no way you can make me click on that
shall I presume many of you have no objection to being called ‘nazis’ in the standard twitter-left definition
I didn’t know there was a standardised definition, or that it was somehow political-side-specific. If I were to steelman this then this could be about a pedantic distinction between a fascist and a nazi?
Hey, you know what you can do if you feel bad about being called a nazi? STOP BEING A FUCKING NAZI.
Shall I treat all drunk sex as ‘rape’ because kidnapper-rape and frat-sex have the commonality of reduced consent
Yes. Yes you should. Hey, see, you understand this! Also consent either is or isn’t, there’s no “reduced consent”.
Shall I treat your remarks about this-or-that group as ‘hate speech’, or ‘violence’, in the form of speech?
Emm, depends on the remarks? If they’re hate remarks then ye dude, that’s what the word means?
Clearly, we have some sense by which concept creep exists; by which definitions can be stretched dishonestly.
Ye, like how you would define “censorship” I’m sure
This is 10000 words to promote being a garbage person, what the fuck.
When the average rationalist screed looks like this, I assume the reason they’re so absolutist for freedom of speech is because they never actually read each other’s speech.
I never wondered what a microdosed meth-fueled article would look like. Thank you for this.
I was honestly curious until “someone’s wife who used to have feelings for me” made me check out.
Incel vibes are strong here.
We are, of course, assuming that the author continues to "micro"dose.
“I’m microdosing faster”
How does this person manage to be such a fucking asshole in his own story? Also, you are going to use the definition of fucking rape as an example of a definition that has been stretched too far? What are these people on?
Oh, right. Meth.
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Is there another Scoot that isn’t Scott Henson (RIP my sweet tiger)?
I thought the same, friend.
Absolutely legendary sense of humor, that beautiful man. The only time a person I didn’t personally know has died and I was legitimately crushed.
Scott Alexander (Siskind) of SlateStarCodex/AstralCodexTen
Aha, thank you!
yeah dude the reason people think MDMA isn’t worse than meth is that it isn’t their heart rate they’re worried about with habit-forming meth consumption
Just the very starkest most ratiocinationary combination of a contrarian red herring and a false dilemma
As an adhd enjoyer, the idea of someone using our prescription stimulant medications of justify raw dogging gas station meth is fucking wild. Stimulant meds have been around since the 50s, but they are waaaaaaay better now, mostly because of novel delivery systems that carefully control the release rate of the active compound. I’ve learned the hard way that while generic allegra-d is fine, you can’t fuck around with your adhd meds this way, because the difference between generics varies wildly, and unless you request particular manufacturers – any or all of which may be in short supply when you request it – you’re playing russian roulette with your executive functioning for the next month.
Getting generic adderall xr is like buying a plane ticket, but not knowing until you board whether it’s an Airbus, a Boeing, or an Ork Wagon with a thousand pounds of fireworks glued onto the roof.
Then these guys are just going to do meth that they got from a guy?
Jesus.
Edit: do you reckon that meth > GMO mouth bacteria?
At the very least, the supply chain of meth is likely to be more robust than the supply chain for GMO mouth bacteria.
These kids really think if they pick up some trailer park rock candy they can become Paul Erdos. Hate to say it lads, he was simply built different.
they think they can become Sam Bankman-Fried, and in several regards they’re correct
