In general I find the least charitable explanations of any of Alexander’s behavior to be the most plausible

I see the former evangelical Christians who were converted into EAs are busy redpilling themselves back into their original beliefs

The rest of you live in such cool cities. I’m in Washington, DC, the least cool city imaginable (and now even worse, having been overrun by EA lobbyists)

Let me know if you want to SneerUp

Which stems from a contempt for accountability itself

More depressing than amusing

My favorite Stewart Lee bit is about this. (In regards to conservative trolls, but the point still holds.)

It’s just a joke!.. But in addition to it being a joke, it’s also my sincerely held true belief.

https://youtu.be/K7CnMQ4L9Pc?feature=shared&t=265

Congratulations?

It’s almost exclusively a matter of vocabulary: people identify speaking in a particular register with being that kind of person as they understand that ideal

This, so much this

My god some spectacularly bad takes on here. The top-rated one is just bananas-level stupid:

While there may be a substantial worldview gap, I suspect the much larger difference is that most Sneer Clubbers are looking to boost their status by trying to bully anyone who looks like a vulnerable target, and being different, as LessWrong is, is enough to qualify.

Yes, that’s right. I spend my time boosting my status by (checks notes) commenting on the internet.

I’ll go one further: “intelligence” as conceived by “IQ” is a mostly meaningless concept and the word, when used in everyday English, mostly just means “agrees with me”

This shit is just as bad, frankly. The quest to quantify and then rank All The Things is inherently dangerous.

If you spend your money on a yacht, people say “cool yacht”.

I was going to say, I have never heard a single human soul in my decades upon this earth say “cool yacht.”

Why is it so hard for these dorks to admit that they don’t actually care about being smart or rational and that they just want a bunch of other dorks to be friends with?

(Not to be trivially reductionist, but…) Because admitting you want friends is unmasculine. IBTP

I think the simplest explanation is that it appeals to their urge to ruthlessly quantify all human interactions, including statements about their worldview.