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BattleMaster posted:Of all forms of fiction you could write in the style of, why Harry Potter fanfiction?
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So Ayn Rand but with S&M in the supertext rather than subtext.
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May 28, 2018 23:59
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Pitch posted:Apart from "know your audience", it's also a genre where no one will bat an eye if you run over a dozen volumes. This isn't his first though, is it? He wrote some other book that had a full-sentence rhetorical question for a title and I thought for sure that was a light novel pastiche. This one came first. He says this taught him a lot for "A Girl Corrupted". Munin posted:So Ayn Rand but with S&M in the supertext rather than subtext. The economics is actually pretty conventional, which I was slightly surprised by. In further news: The Gig Economy by Zero HP Lovecraft I read this and thought "the universe is loving with me. And Sandifer." It is well worth a couple of hours. The only reason I am not spamming this link across the heavens is the author's Twitter bio: "No enemies to the right. Likes: nrx, cryptocurrency, hbd, old books. Dislikes: universal suffrage, the sexual revolution" Oh well. But I figure you guys will get every note this thing hits.
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May 29, 2018 01:47
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divabot posted:This one came first. He says this taught him a lot for "A Girl Corrupted". Obviously his bio recontextualizes the story from horror to aspirational fantasy.
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May 29, 2018 01:57
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divabot posted:The economics is actually pretty conventional, which I was slightly surprised by. Yeah same. Must be more reaction-formation; his dad is generally of the “Bitcoin/gold will save us from the Stalinist SJW PC menace of Big Government Socialism, End the Fed!” bent. That said, Eli peddling conventional economics brings to mind the classic quote about “Christian rock” from King of the Hill: “You’re not making Christianity better, you’re making rock & roll worse!” Please, Eli, stop “helping.”
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May 29, 2018 07:50
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eschaton posted:Yeah same. Must be more reaction-formation; his dad is generally of the “Bitcoin/gold will save us from the Stalinist SJW PC menace of Big Government Socialism, End the Fed!” bent. I hear this in passing - anything citable?
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May 29, 2018 08:11
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Not really, just from lists we’re on and hanging out with common friends at cons and so on.
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May 29, 2018 09:39
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BattleMaster posted:Of all forms of fiction you could write in the style of, why Japanese light novels Because men also like YA fiction.
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May 29, 2018 15:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dJ8whOM8E Why is nobody talking about the feminine penis?
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Jun 2, 2018 22:53
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divabot posted:“Content warning: sexual abuse, economics.”
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Jun 2, 2018 23:42
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divabot posted:This one came first. He says this taught him a lot for "A Girl Corrupted". I really enjoyed that story. Where'd you find it linked from?
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Jun 3, 2018 14:48
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Relevant Tangent posted:I really enjoyed that story. Where'd you find it linked from? a thread on another site talking about why bitcoin is poo poo, but it's been linked across the rationalsphere
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Jun 3, 2018 16:14
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Goddamnit, they’re leaking into real life again. Fair warning, that article is actually pretty disturbing - genuine trigger warnings for explicit discussion of (read: advocacy of) rape and paedophilia.
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Jun 5, 2018 19:40
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Darth Walrus posted:Goddamnit, they’re leaking into real life again. Fair warning, that article is actually pretty disturbing - genuine trigger warnings for explicit discussion of (read: advocacy of) rape and paedophilia.  This man is going to get murdered by someone. Jesus Christ almighty!
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Jun 6, 2018 03:05
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Puppy Time posted:
If the article is not grossly misleading, that might be a good outcome because I can scarcely imagine this person getting help for his issues but I definitely can imagine him committing or helping to inspire acts of violence. Re help / psych treatment facilities, A Virginia state representative was stabbed to death by his son after attempting to have him committed and finding out there was no room in the system. :thomas-jefferson-sheds-single-tear: quote:In a 3,300-word essay on incelocalypse.today, titled “Here’s How to Psyche Yourself Up to Feel Entitled to Rape,” Larson tells other members: “Don’t forget: feminism is the problem, and rape is the solution.” On the platform, he also advocated for father-daughter marriage, killing women and raping virgins.
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Jun 6, 2018 13:55
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prisoner of waffles posted:
This is literally just the plot of the hentai he's beaten off to every night for the last six years isn't it
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Jun 6, 2018 14:35
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ate all the Oreos posted:This is literally just the plot of the hentai he's beaten off to every night for the last six years isn't it I get the sense that his capacity for cruelty has been realized in ways beyond the consumption of media and the writing of rants and screeds. Read the article if you care.
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Jun 6, 2018 18:36
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prisoner of waffles posted:I get the sense that his capacity for cruelty has been realized in ways beyond the consumption of media and the writing of rants and screeds. Read the article if you care. He's been jailed for threatening to kill the President and for being goddamn batshit crazy. The one thing he hasn't been jailed for is kiddy fiddling or even for CP, which is goddamn amazing given how long he's been blowing the "gently caress all the kids" horn. oh and being the first person ever to be banned from RationalWiki. We got there first.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:04
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divabot posted:He's been jailed for threatening to kill the President and for being goddamn batshit crazy. The one thing he hasn't been jailed for is kiddy fiddling or even for CP, which is goddamn amazing given how long he's been blowing the "gently caress all the kids" horn. Most poignant to me is [TW: suicide] the timeline of his wife divorcing him while pregnant and not telling him that, getting a restraining order against him immediately after he moved out, and committing suicide apparently not long after giving birth. If you merely take him at his word, he's all about finding intimate partners whom he can not just dominate but harm and exploit.
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Jun 6, 2018 19:21
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prisoner of waffles posted:I get the sense that his capacity for cruelty has been realized in ways beyond the consumption of media and the writing of rants and screeds. Read the article if you care. Oh totally, I'm just saying the whole thing sounds like he's so absorbed in his own fetishes that he can't possibly view the world through any lens other than that. Like you can just tell that he's the kind of person who refers to real life children as "lolis" 
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Jun 6, 2018 19:23
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Like he's so loving divorced from reality that this makes sense to him:quote:When asked what his constituents would think about his pedophiliac writings, he said, “People are open-minded.” This is what 4chan does to your brain
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Jun 6, 2018 19:25
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larson is icky. how about some unfriendly artificial intelligence japes:tumblr posted:i’d like to see a really ineffectual malicious AI character
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Jun 6, 2018 19:56
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divabot posted:larson is icky. how about some unfriendly artificial intelligence japes: So basically Bender
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Jun 6, 2018 20:01
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divabot posted:larson is icky. how about some unfriendly artificial intelligence japes: Aren't strangely ineffectual malicious AIs actually something of an old cliche? All those bad sci-fi stories about computers and robots that explode when confronted with logical paradoxes.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:30
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Not malicious, but there was Asimov's QT, who figured out that the world outside its space station was an elaborate hoax for the poor deluded humans. Came up with a religion, converted the other robots, wouldn't let the humans at the controls, but eh, it still did the job.
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Jun 6, 2018 20:46
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Not malicious, but there was Asimov's QT, who figured out that the world outside its space station was an elaborate hoax for the poor deluded humans. Came up with a religion, converted the other robots, wouldn't let the humans at the controls, but eh, it still did the job. That was a good one. Basically, the robot convinced itself that running the spacestation solar harvesting facility was some sort of holy duty from some sort of god, and that humans would only gently caress things up if they were allowed to remain on the station. So it kicked off all the humans and ran the station solely with robots. And at no point did it actually break the 3 laws of robotics, because it was right that humans would gently caress it up, so it could happily ignore their commands because listening to their commands would risk human lives.
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Jun 6, 2018 21:40
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Slime posted:That was a good one. Basically, the robot convinced itself that running the spacestation solar harvesting facility was some sort of holy duty from some sort of god, and that humans would only gently caress things up if they were allowed to remain on the station. So it kicked off all the humans and ran the station solely with robots. And at no point did it actually break the 3 laws of robotics, because it was right that humans would gently caress it up, so it could happily ignore their commands because listening to their commands would risk human lives.
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Jun 7, 2018 08:10
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I think people ITT would enjoy* this article: (*understand and perhaps feel deeply upset by) e: gently caress https://libcom.org/blog/refuges-death-worlds-25112016 ee: check it out, y'all IMG_47546.jpg eee: quote:[C]limate change, even under the best case scenarios, looks likely to force dramatically larger numbers of people into displacement. In such a world and absent freedom of movement - real refuge - the toll of thousands of migrants dying in the Mediterranean today could be dwarfed by the that of the habitable zones’ border regimes. prisoner of waffles has a new favorite as of 19:55 on Jun 7, 2018 |
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Jun 7, 2018 19:47
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If I had one "this is what we'll be up against" message to send to (left-leaning?) people of good moral instincts and sincere concern for the future, well, I've got nothing better than that article at the moment.
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Jun 7, 2018 19:57
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Guess who’s back and ill-advicedly using his real name?
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Jun 7, 2018 22:18
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Man, what about people who self actualize by having families instead of traveling?
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Jun 7, 2018 23:44
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https://twitter.com/kflogan/status/1009202092362395649?s=21 The washing machine cleaner is too racist for UKIP.
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Jun 20, 2018 01:06
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Did he claim to be UKIP?
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Jun 20, 2018 06:59
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prisoner of waffles posted:Most poignant to me is [TW: suicide] the timeline of his wife divorcing him while pregnant and not telling him that, getting a restraining order against him immediately after he moved out, and committing suicide apparently not long after giving birth. If you merely take him at his word, he's all about finding intimate partners whom he can not just dominate but harm and exploit. The only bright light in this story is that he has never spent a moment alone with his daughter, and never will. She's being raised by her maternal grandparents.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:09
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https://twitter.com/RuffleJax/status/1009140252085243906 https://twitter.com/RuffleJax/status/1009155513156882434 a whole thread, in the wake of Kathy Forth's suicide
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Jun 20, 2018 20:35
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Eugh. That medium article was real hard to read. This part, though: "I could leave rationality, effective altruism and programming to escape the male-dominated environments that increase my sexual violence risk so much. The trouble is, I wouldn’t be myself. I would have to act like someone else all day." Is there a community that follows the stated goals of rationality and EA, without being completely stuck up its own rear end? I feel like there must be enough people burned out on rationality/EA that this must exist... Edit: Wait, so the lady they hired to try to figure out how to make EA less rapey and gross killed herself because of EA/rationality being rapey and gross. That ... really doesn't say good things, does it. stab stabby has a new favorite as of 00:22 on Jun 21, 2018 |
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Jun 21, 2018 00:16
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There's an incredibly grim comedy in Roko not even having a real name worth mentioning, just "Roko (Yes, the Basilisk guy.)"
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stab stabby posted:Edit: Wait, so the lady they hired to try to figure out how to make EA less rapey and gross killed herself because of EA/rationality being rapey and gross. That ... really doesn't say good things, does it. The impression I got (and I could be wrong) was that she didn't have a lot of experience addressing sexual assault and harassment in workplaces or communities, stepping into the job only because she noticed a pattern in the EA community and started being vocal about the problem. If that's the case then I could see her being deeply, fundamentally blindsided by the obstruction and total lack of interest so many people had in trying to change anything. We all learn about rape early on; it's coming to realize that it an entire culture that persists almost entirely because of enablers more than offenders that leads you to staring at the walls for a while in utter despair.
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there wolf posted:The impression I got (and I could be wrong) was that she didn't have a lot of experience addressing sexual assault and harassment in workplaces or communities, stepping into the job only because she noticed a pattern in the EA community and started being vocal about the problem. If that's the case then I could see her being deeply, fundamentally blindsided by the obstruction and total lack of interest so many people had in trying to change anything. We all learn about rape early on; it's coming to realize that it an entire culture that persists almost entirely because of enablers more than offenders that leads you to staring at the walls for a while in utter despair. Also, a big thing for her seems to have been that she found herself becoming more and more like the ‘social justice warriors’ she’d been trained to hate, so she killed herself before she could ‘radicalise’ because she’d tied way too much of her identity into this specific community and this specific mindset and was horrified by the notion of what might exist outside it. Christ, that’s dark.
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It took me a while to realize we weren't talking about Electronic Arts. ...mostly because I don't doubt for a second that Electronic Arts is rampant with sexual harassment.
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