Soyweiser

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I would love a separate thread on this, more generally a “late 2000s/early 2010s skeptic ytbuers, where are they now”?

Personally I'm not going to waste much time on it, every time I see somebody post/make a vid about one of the older people it gets really sad and weird. Shadiversity (while not a skeptic) turned into a big weird (or well, went mask off), stuff like that.

E: I'm also not sure if YT is even still big, income wise, for people or if people go more to twitch for livestreaming shit and then double dipping by uploading edited streams to yt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Wait is that the woman from that meme? E: Yes she is I didnt know that image was from JRE.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

That guy must be a communist. Cause that is a big red flag.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Capital G gamers think they are mega smart and some sort of consumer powerhouse who cannot be scammed, and like a lot of people who think they are too smart to be scammed they fall for everything, preorders, fanservice, horse armor, DLC etc etc it all gets gobbled up like slob, no wonder so many fall for the ragebait.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Perfect.

Damn librals!

E: Saying Darwinism when you mean evolution is quite something btw. Ow god he also is ancient, from 1939.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Iirc literally a far right manospherian talking point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

It is, but I would say that as it is aligned to what I think about these folks. It is also a funny site in a way that a lot of these weirdos go "rational wiki sucks, is not rational and lies!" Before reading the pages they are mad about, and afterwards go "yeah no that is fair" after reading it. Happend quite a few times with the "skeptic" yt people in the yt'er to alt right funnel/pipeline from a decade ago. (A few of these people have really lost the plot now, armored skeptic is now some believer in aliens for example. I dont think anyone has cared enough about him to update his page however).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah but tescreal is a name we give them, themselves organise in different groups (which fit into the term yes). They have different parts pf the tescreal, but it all ends up in culty behaviour, just a different cult.

Btw see also love bombing with Quantum Scott. There was also the weird LW people who ended up protesting other LW people in the crazy way (didnt it include robes or something, I dont recall much). Or calling Scottstar the rightful caliph when Yud was posting less.

So my point is more they morph into different cults, and wonder how much they use this lack of singular cult as a way to claim they are not a cult. Or whatever rot13ed word they used for cult.

E: not that all this really matters in the grand scheme of things. just a personal hangup.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think it is a little bit more complicated, Im one of the few mentioning this however, so it isnt a common idea I think. I think it isnt directly a cult/religion, but stealing the language of Silicon Valley, it is a cult incubator. Reading these things, having these beliefs about AGI and rationality makes you more susceptible to join or start cult like groups. The less wrong article "every cause wants to be a cult" doesnt help for example, neither does it when they speak highly of the methods os scientology. The various spinoffs and how many of these groups act cultlike and use cultlike shit makes me think this.

So it is worse in a way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

Rationalwiki (not affiliated with LW Rationalists, the opposite actually, op is a mod there) has a page on it. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Less_wrong

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Elon’s status as a little bitch doesn’t overrule Melania’s green card.

This is correct, and there is also a little bit of misogyny in people calling him the first lady.

But what is known is that he is technically illegal, as apparently he we illegally in the country when he got his citizenship papers, which makes them revocable. If only Biden had a bit of guts.

divorce

So much of Musk shit points back to his first divorce how it went and how he never got over it. Including the hateboner he now has for adhd meds (which would prob help him actually stay on a project, and not just play diablo), his hate for therapy and everything else. But self awareness is not a family trait the have, if read the highlights of this interview with his dad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that is certainly a problem, but at least they are kicking the neo-nazi mods/groups out. (Which sadly on steam is a community thing, steam itself doesn't seem to care (just the amount of open transphobia on the forums can be quite much, esp when outsiders decide something is 'woke')). Openly doing this sort of stuff (esp on hoi4) seems to be pretty disliked.

While I have not kept up with it, stellaris had a bit of a bigger crypto-fascist entryism problem. On reddit there used to be a lot xenophobic authoritarian anime girl mod nations posts. And the Xeno-Compatibility perk (basically interbreeding between species) got a bad rep in the reputation to (at least in the past, think it is fixed but the rep remains) causing lot of late game lag. Which the crypto fascists and edgy bros jumped onto.

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