No.11962
Scott Alexander or Eliezer Yudkowsky?
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No.11964
They both have strengths and weaknesses. We need a successor Caliph who combines the strength of both; only then can the rationalist community cease its decay and fracturing.
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No.11969
I never thought of eliezer as a chad before but it fits surprisingly well.
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No.11997
The image make a strangely compelling case.
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No.11998
How about Duncan "Dragon Army" Sabien, btw?
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No.11999
>>11998
He's a false prophet, check'em
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No.12004
The dragon spoken of in Revelations.
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No.12037
Scott is definitely more approachable but I think he's less inspiring.
EY is obviously super intelligent as well but I think he might be a bit full of himself. Maybe.
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No.12051
>>12037
if u think EY is intelligent i feel bad for you son
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No.12052
the third alternative: its me
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No.12116
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No.12126
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No.12128
Quite seriously, though, in the last 5 or so years I'm more impressed by Yudkowsky not getting swept up in all the dumb political bullshit that consumes everybody else. Scott Alexander used to write about philosophy/game theory/fantasy worldbuilding/…, and now a worryingly large percentage of his blog is political editorials that could have been written by an edgy NYT columnist. Even fucking Scott Aaronson used to write about computer science and philosophy, and now a worryingly large percentage of his blog is political editorials that could have been written by an edgy NYT columnist.
Yudkowsky used to write about friendly AI, and he *still* writes about friendly AI. That's a triumph of rationalism right there.
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No.12130
>>12128
you know, you're kinda right
he only lets loose on social media but in writing form I never saw much from that point of view
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No.12135
Eliezer is an incompetent philosopher and believes that virtue is bad and sin is good.
Scott has never been terribly impressive.
Neither are suitable.
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No.12138
>>12128
>Quite seriously, though, in the last 5 or so years I'm more impressed by Yudkowsky not getting swept up in all the dumb political bullshit that consumes everybody else
He bitched about neoreactionaries a LOT on tumblr
If you're talking the output of main blogs though then yeah EY beats out both of the Scotts especially the eternally asspained Aaronson
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No.12139
>>12126
lol
Scott would look a lot better with hair.
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No.12140
>>12138
On tumblr? http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com has a bunch of puns, and some discussion about writing fiction, but nothing obviously political. Is there some other secret Yudkowsky-tumblr I should be aware of?
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No.12141
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No.12142
>>12141
Is there more like that? On its own, it just looks like a pledge not to interact with neoreaction, which doesn't suggest he posts a lot about it.
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No.12143
>>12141
Did he ever give his arguments against nrx or did he just try make the trannies on tumblr stop bullying him?
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No.12144
>>12142
>>12140
I was wrong to say that he bitched about them a lot. That post in >>12141 stuck out in my mind but as a proportion of total word count from all of his blog posts, NRx discourse is not big.
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No.12162
>>12128
Are you kidding? Yud's been on Facebook writing tiny-brain drivel about
>Trump is Literally Hitler, You Guys, I Talked To An Intelligence Person And He Said Trump Was Super Bad
and don't forget
>Politics Is The Mind-Killer But Getting Enormously Butthurt About The Existence Of Christianity Isn't A Political Act Because I'm Extremely Smart
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No.12164
>>12162
Do you have a link to the Christianity one?
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No.12800
>>11962
Obviously it's Brian Tomasik (reducing-suffering.org), John Nerst (everythingstudies.com) and of course the boy Hanson.
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No.12801
>>11962
Gwern, obviously. His dry autism makes me horny beyond belief.
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No.12807
>>12801
Dry autism sounds like a nice fetish, because you can just fap to #lesswrong.
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No.14171
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No.14245
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