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He worked with some of my relatives, and he seemed like a decent enough guy at the functions I attended. Just a bit pedantic in the way that all PhDs are. Though this was back in the early 2000s so no idea if he's substantially changed.
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He shows up anywhere he's invited to smug it up about anything these days. I remember him being lovably smug back in the day, but the positive attention went to his head and now he thinks he has actual meditative wisdom that can be broadly applied, rather than a very specific intellectual focus. He's not virulent, but he's super obnoxious, and it pains me to think that he's seen as the heir apparent in any way to Sagan and his much more welcoming, poetic, secular mystic outlook on the beauty of the natural world and the scientific method's ability to help us explore & appreciate it.
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mysterious frankie posted:Sagan and his much more welcoming, poetic, secular mystic outlook on the beauty of the natural world and the scientific method's ability to help us explore & appreciate it. 
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SolTerrasa posted:One guy in there swears that the reason he doesn't have a girlfriend is because he has a suboptimal musk. Dude stinks so bad he's aware of it, but women are supposed to like dude-sweat* so obviously his must be defective some other way. *(evo-psych and  is a cult with these people swear to god)
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Syd Midnight posted:The world is still waiting for Carl Sagan's heir apparent as the grand poobah of science popularization & apologia. The existence of the internet makes the position all the more vital, as a limiting force on I loving LOVE science. Are we stuck between Tyson and Bill Nye right now? I'd think a more vital qualification than charisma would be a reluctance to spout off outside ones field without consulting the relevant experts to learn the actual consensus, instead of just winging it. Brian Cox is pretty alright I thought? He even seems to have a decent sense of humour about how goofy and starry-eyed he gets sometimes.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Was he always this bad? I seem to remember him being a perfectly fine TV Science Guy a few years ago, did that just go to his head or something? I think he works better with a script. When allowed to go off the cuff... well, his PhD isn't in communication.
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ate all the Oreos posted:I just liked when he was the pig on Gravity Falls *mind blown*
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pookel posted:Wait what? Neil deGrasse Tyson is Wattles? He was in one episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIcH2vzGMQ
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I found Roko's facebook today, he of the Basilisk. It's low-quality MRA memes, and he's FB friends with Emil Kirkegaard. I think we can say for sure that the Basilisk is female, and probably black.
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divabot posted:I found Roko's facebook today, he of the Basilisk. It's low-quality MRA memes, and he's FB friends with Emil Kirkegaard. I think we can say for sure that the Basilisk is female, and probably black.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/826dd4/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_march_5_2018/dv8yt3t/ I don't get why, "The funniest trope is the black-white criminal team." Maybe I don't have enough experience in criminal teams, but it's always interesting what the mega-racists think is ridiculously snortingly obvious.
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Scott is having a nerd boy slap fight with Nathan Robinson https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/972634380521885696
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Dmitri-9 posted:Scott is having a nerd boy slap fight with Nathan Robinson The most horrifying part of this is that Scott Alexander was cited in the New York Times, which means he's dangerously close to being a mainstream pundit in a Moderate Conservative position
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ate all the Oreos posted:That opener is really not making me want to click through to read the other 80 tweets It’s actually not a bad thread, even if it isn’t saying much that’s new.
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a beautiful reply from nathan j. robinson to scott after scott responded to previous article by nthan about david brooks NYT turd https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/on-being-fair-to-social-justice-activists i think we are beyond expecting intellectual honesty from scott, he's never going to own up to how uncharitable and biased his blog is
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Goon Danton posted:Wait did David Brooks do something especially egregious, or did everyone just remember that he exists and gets paid to write words? Bari Weiss is the current focal point, but the NYT has been going out of it's way to discredit itself for these past few months
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Goon Danton posted:Wait did David Brooks do something especially egregious, or did everyone just remember that he exists and gets paid to write words? He quoted Scott Alexander as a source and not even one of the less offensive Scott pieces that seems relatively reasonable if you don't have the context of his other blogposts
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I love seeing somebody give Scott the business but I hate seeing him treated as somebody it's worth taking the time to rebut.
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I remember when Scott started his blog way back its big thing was going to be that it would apply the principle of charity to everything. Turned out it only meant applying the principle of charity to right-wing shitlords.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The most horrifying part of this is that Scott Alexander was cited in the New York Times, which means he's dangerously close to being a mainstream pundit in a Moderate Conservative position His secret dream, within reach at last.
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Oh no thanks to this I found out Steven Hawking died from Matt Forney 
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by the way, the author of Neoreaction a Basilisk is now Elizabeth Sandifer (in case you were wondering about that dedication in the book version) books to be reissued under the new name in coming weeks, except Guided by the Beauty of their Weapons, which will be deleted and its component essays parceled out between other books. (GRAB A COPY NOW IF YOU WANT ONE)
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Well, Sandifer's obnoxious pseudo-profound bullshit writing style hasn't changed at all.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well, Sandifer's obnoxious pseudo-profound bullshit writing style hasn't changed at all. That's a pretty hot take, but after reading Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons... I kind of agree? I actually really liked the parts where she critically analyzes old video games, and parts of the Vox Day interview were rather revealing, but I really could have done without the self-indulgent Alan Moore-style mysticism. And in some ways the Day interview was misleading, because Day was putting on a much less crazy face than he usually does (though the mask slipped in places).
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well, Sandifer's obnoxious pseudo-profound bullshit writing style hasn't changed at all. This is 100% the time to get in a cheap shot at someone and not at all in poor taste when you literally could have like, waited for her to come up again in two weeks and said it then and not come across as an rear end.
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Congrats to her! I am now less surprised that the TERF chapter of NieRoaction: Atomalisk was good-for-a-cis-person.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:This is 100% the time to get in a cheap shot at someone and not at all in poor taste when you literally could have like, waited for her to come up again in two weeks and said it then and not come across as an rear end. The wasp factory is not scifi.
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As a huge fan of the pseudomystical Alan Moore stuff and general smugness I wish her well.
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Silver2195 posted:That's a pretty hot take, but after reading Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons... I kind of agree? I actually really liked the parts where she critically analyzes old video games, and parts of the Vox Day interview were rather revealing, but I really could have done without the self-indulgent Alan Moore-style mysticism. And in some ways the Day interview was misleading, because Day was putting on a much less crazy face than he usually does (though the mask slipped in places). But the self-indulgent mysticism is why people like Moore. At least that's why I do. Whatever the case i'm glad to have been introduced to this author even if it was via the medium of disapproval.
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divabot posted:except Guided by the Beauty of their Weapons, which will be deleted and its component essays parceled out between other books. (GRAB A COPY NOW IF YOU WANT ONE)
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I don't care about allegorical poetry at all so the last bit of Neoreaction A Basilisk was lost on me, but the rest is amazing.
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RokoCoin. You've seen it, you can't unsee it.
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