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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish ·
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definitely time we started charging this person rent

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definitely time we started charging this person rent

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish ·
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If Clarity Seems Like Death to Them — LessWrong
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> "—but if one hundred thousand [normies] can turn up, to show their support for the [rationalist] community, why can't you?" > > I said wearily, "B…
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    you would almost think these people were doing philosophy while deliberately learning fuck all about it

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      ties big yud and scott up in her basement, forces them to go through the critique of pure reason giving them a werther’s every time they manage to genuinely engage with the ideas

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        scott’s undergrad degree, he FUCKING MAJORED IN PHILOSOPHY

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          D:

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      They skim read some utilitarianism, which is a limited school of thought (if it has any value at all), and jumped straight to “fuck yes! This is everything!”

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        This is very undergraduate.

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        “at last! I can do some really telling thought experiments!”

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