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shocked, shocked at all these racists
(awful.systems)
invertebrateinvert
amazing how much shittier it is to be in the rat community now that the racists won. before at least they were kinda coy about it and pretended to still have remotely good values instead of it all being yarvinslop.
invertebrateinvert
it would be nice to be able to ever invite rat friends to anything but half the time when I've done this in the last year they try selling people they just met on scientific racism!
source: a reblog of the original
first time i spoke to a rationalist about the AI doom thing in 2010, he tried to sell me on scientific racism
yudkowsky was making posts literally of race scientist talking points in 2007
I feel like this is going to be a pretty common cope line for rationalists that face an increasing social cost for associating with a technofascist AI cult. I'm sure some of that is legitimate, in that there's been a kind of dead sea effect as people who aren't okay with eugenics stop hanging out in rationalist spaces, making the space as a whole more openly racist. But in terms of the thought leaders and the "movement" as a whole, I can't think of any high-profile respected rat figures who pushed back against the racists and lost. All the pushback and call-outs came from outside the ratsphere. In as much as the racists "won" it was a fight that never actually happened.
Even Ozy talked about someone converting zir to eugenics around the time that zi was moving from feminist blogging to LessWrong (although zi no longer endorsed eugenics two years later) https://web.archive.org/web/20141127052857/http://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/an-argument-against-eugenics-that-doesnt-involve-calling-anyone-a-nazi/
I read that as Ozzy for a second and got really confused.