/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous

>Basically all of the really classic comic book characters were made by Jewish people, they were a huge part of the industry.

>Is this cause for alarm? That's a genuine question. […]

Sure, a particular genre or art-form being culture-bound is no big deal. I can appreciate Islamic architecture or Chinese cuisine without being Muslim or Chinese. But Rationality is supposed to be universal and objective like mathematics or physics. That's the promise that attracted me, at least. I think it's unusual for any objective science to be culture-bound in this way, and so if something is, that casts doubt upon its objectivity unless some other explanation for the culture-boundness is found.

For comparison, consider medieval Scholasticism. Thomas Aquinas & friends thought they were doing "objectively true" philosophy. But when you find that it was only European Catholics who were promoting the ideology, that would make you question its objectivity.

>Is it really so hard to believe that a similar mechanism could extend to certain industries or professions?

No, but rationality is a worldview, not an "industry" or a "profession." In order to apply this analogy you would need to argue that "pundit who explains technical topics to a general audience" is an "industry/profession" that is predominantly Jewish for historical reasons. I suppose there's an argument to be made here. But while the set of people who write pop-sci stuff may be disproportionately Jewish, I don't think it's >90% Jewish like (evidently) the subset of those who expound the rationalist ideology in particular.

Not this again.

You should have linked your complaint thread, too, to make it more clear what kind of discussion you are upset about not being able to have.

https://politics.lol/moloch/4973

>this topic is too hot for motte, and too hot for this board. Because some very special people "fucking hate" to allow others to exchange information on this subject and they'll try to shout down, discredit and hurt anyone who attempts it. Goys are expected to just not notice some things period. Smart rat boys/goys are to pretend they're dumb and gullible and keep their heads down when they witness a pattern, a weirdly weak argument, a fit of primal rage under a poor cover of dry sarcasm. Only on this topic. It's about the most outstanding class of patterns in intellectual life, economics and recent history but you can't touch it. And it's doubleplusungood when what you say can't be best summarized as "these special people are so awesome and high IQ, my retarded jealous brainwashed ancestors were totally wrong about them, [sure would be preferable from a utilitarian POV if they ruled us]"

>4412

>The brain is only a lens for the soul. No one's got a clue about how the brain and the mind overlap. Some shaky videos and a monkey picking up an apple is good show, but nothing about philosophy or neuroscience. Yeah I'm gonna do say something pseudoscientific and say that the brain tunes into the soul by microtubules something something. Just as good as anybody else's guess except mine doesn't have a lot of profesional people yes-menning it like hebbian materialism has gotten.

>4414

>I agree. Hebbian materialism is retarded and Jewish af. There is no sense of causation whatsoever. It's impossible to reconcile with the objective experience of the soul/spirit, which to me is beyond denial. I feel as though they come to that belief through verbal reasoning rather than any kind of reasoning that comes in contact with the real world, so to speak.

RATIONALIST-ADJACENT

>>14906

You are using a quote of a poor misguided teen's post to discourage high quality discussion in this thread, looks like bad-faith rhetorics to me.

>>14907

I am using that quote to mock TheMotte and to discourage using /ratanon/ as a gathering place for TheMotte posters with 'the Jew thing.' This board once had a regular poster who made intrusive attempts to insert white nationalist content. (Was it you, OP?) It did not contribute to the board's quality.

>>14903

I actually found out that yudkowsky is jewish after I read the chapter in the sequences where's he's talking about a cop being braver than jesus or something and googled him. I with I became a nazi earlier in life. It's clear that he has a anti-christian bias.

>>14908

>I am using that quote to mock TheMotte

(This is not to say all of TheMotte is bad or worthless. But I see a gradient of irrationality from SSC comments to old culture war threads to it. It will likely get worse the longer TheMotte exists as a separate community.)

>>14909

Just a fedora-tipper, he also likes to talk about how the Jewish doctrine of transmitting knowledge is fundamentally degenerate because it claims every generation knows less than the last (even worked it into his fanfic)

I think I've seen him dunk more on Judaism than on Christianity

>>14919

Why are South Asians overrepresented and East Asians underrepresented?

>>14920

For South Asians, the ones in the US are disproportionately Brahmins, who have a higher average IQ than lower caste Indians. For East Asians, lower curiosity might be a reason.

https://www.unz.com/jthompson/asians-bright-but-not-curious/