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File: 4005b7c4e10d86e⋯.png (61.16 KB, 183x275, 183:275, special-snowflake.png)

 No.6368

Scott has fucking lost it. What do /ratanon/?

 No.6369

File: 05620f821cc371d⋯.png (31.29 KB, 677x315, 677:315, 1460763141910.png)

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 No.6370

Keep shitposting and carry on,


 No.6371

>Scott has fucking lost it.

He has?


 No.6372

File: d88ea76d53f70f6⋯.jpg (532.13 KB, 800x1200, 2:3, unpasteurized milk.jpg)

>>6368

I have to assume this is in reference to http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/02/be-nice-at-least-until-you-can-coordinate-meanness/ or something on Scott's tumblr (which, interestingly, is on the other side of the culture war, as it were, from the aforementioned post), because that it would be about http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/04/myers-race-car-versus-the-general-fitness-factor/ seems unlikely. Or perhaps it is a hypothetical.

I think this is a good time to raise the general question: if someone is permabanned from SSC/LW/w/e, do we tell them about /ratanon/ to bolster our numbers, or do we not tell them because we don't like to attract human trash?


 No.6373

>>6372

>we don't like to attract human trash

speak for yourself, man. the trash wants what it wants :^)


 No.6374

>>6372

behold, i've built a handy evaluator function for whether you should invite someone to /ratanon/:

True


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 No.6376

>>6374

cool, I'll go ahead and link to this board from /b/, then :^)


 No.6377

>>6376

Our memes are fit.


 No.6378

>>6372

Somehow I don't think image boards are James A. "Jim" Donald's style.


 No.6379

>>6376

Out of historical interest, I'd like to observe that apparently, you did!

>>>/b/5717703

http://web.archive.org/web/20160506113646/http://8ch.net/b/res/5717703.html


 No.6380

>>6376

>>6379

This was a terrible idea. Now we can't separate the cognitive elite from SSC from the proles.


 No.6381

>>6379

As the creator of that function I stand by it.


 No.6382

File: cfe05a855af2645⋯.png (44.05 KB, 214x289, 214:289, Foghorn_Leghorn.png)

>>6378

Jim's greatness transcends formats.


 No.6383

Is Jim worth reading? Hearing the usual suspects SCREAM about his pure evil was a great advertisement.


 No.6384

File: bf09e6b4bfb5695⋯.png (12.05 KB, 464x135, 464:135, anime_girls.png)

>>6383

Eh, maybe. Strip out the cacophemisms and allow for quantitative differences in estimates of population-level intelligence and conscientiousness and you won't find a lot that isn't in David Friedman and public choice generally.

A bunch of his substantively best material is in comments on ESR's old posts, too.


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 No.6386

>>6383

He often makes good points but also tends to pull "facts" out of his ass when convenient instead of doing proper research or showing proper charity to other views. So I don't trust him like I do Scott.


 No.6387

>>6385

Ok, this guy seems correct on a number of issues but he needs to stop writing and acting like a complete autistic /r9k/ retard. Here's some examples pulled from the first link:

>I was talking to a mother about her highly “successful” lawyerette daughter, remarking that this child had reached an age where marriage had long been unlikely, and children were now becoming unlikely. The mother was outraged at such horribly reactionary crime think. I never got around to discussing the fact her very high IQ lawyerette daughter had spent her youth, her beauty, and her fertile years fucking stony broke losers, many of them low IQ, many of them loser criminals.

Going up to random people to discuss how slutty their daughter is, is about as autistic as you can get. If he can't act normal in public then he needs to at least hide his power level.

>Our culture lacks the eighteenth century role model of the gentleman, the man who is polite, respectful, conventional, but still capable of deadly violence,

Here he's confirming himself as a fedora wearing neckbeard who dreams of using his katana whenever someone insults "m'lady".

>They need to be taught to respect and admire the kind of male that is likely to be able and willing to marry them.

"Women needs to be taught to respect and admire fat weeaboos like myself". This is the point where I stopped reading.


 No.6388

File: ba0d177fc85121f⋯.jpg (35.84 KB, 425x600, 17:24, 3001734693.jpg)

>>6387

>Here he's confirming himself as a fedora wearing neckbeard who dreams of using his katana whenever someone insults "m'lady".

Oddly people like this make me more right wing, not less, only down another fork.

Makes me want to go full SA (minus the boy fucking) and exterminate all of these preening bourgeois dandies tbh.

"Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive."

"Adolf is a swine. He will give us all away. He only associates with reactionaries now. His old friends aren't good enough for him. Getting matey with the East Prussian generals. They're his cronies now. Adolf is turning into a gentleman. He's got himself a tail-coat now. Adolf knows exactly what I want. I've told him often enough. Not a second edition of the old imperial army. Are we revolutionaries or aren't we?"


 No.6389

>>6387

IIRC he's middle-aged and was married until recently when his wife died so I think you're misunderstanding where he's coming from.


 No.6390

>>6389

(IE yes he does come across as awfully smug but it's a different kind of smug than the totally delusional type associated with the stereotypical neckbeard).


 No.6527

I am sorry for asking the question but what is this board about?


 No.7081

>>6527

This is the rationalist board. The rationalist community is hard to explain, especially if you don't want to get into the full history of SL4, OB, LW, etc… but to a first approximation, you can think of /ratanon/ as a fan board for a blog called SlateStarCodex (of course, per *chan culture, half the posts here are about how SSC has jumped the shark and the other half reply that SSC was never good). The community itself is interested in topics like transhumanism, singularitarianism, utilitarianism, atheism, empiricism, reductionism, and economics, but this board is mostly just shitposting, in-jokes, memes, and juicy rumors about important people in the movement. Try the following posts to get started:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech/

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/




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