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saying the term 'mathematical wizard' definitely doesnt make you sound like a douche
For a bad time, look into what the cult's founder and leader calls "math pets."
Extreme short version is that the "rationalist" cult known as LessWrong/MIRI has a founder and leader that is rather open about his mind control fetish... other people's minds, of course. In real life he drugs and hypnotizes his sexual partners yet wraps all the coercive and rapey behavior in so much jargon and techbro slang that it sounds like something other than drugging and brainwashing people so he can violate them.
They're boorish surface level fans of things that often miss the contextual point and twist what little they do understand into pretzel knots to fit their ideology.
After all, "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" did just that. Its author, Big Yud, admitted he only saw the movies and didn't even bother with the books and ultimately that didn't matter either way because he surgically removed everything about Harry Potter's personality and stuffed himself into the role, making the wishy-washy liberal magic cop in the making into a cryptofascist psychopath instead.
STEMlord writes an article about how understanding engineering makes them better than people who can write well
Yeah but how the fuck do any of those engineering concepts get explained?
Right? It's as if the people who get promoted in these types of environments are the ones that are the best at talking.
All my bros are rotating tesseracts in their mind, coloring different surfaces in colors that don't exist in the real world, some surfaces displaying their favorite gifs but with orcs in bootcut jeans, all my bros are analphabets
Interestingly enough, people with aphantasia perform just as well as people without on mental rotation tests. It does take them longer and they don't vividly "see" the shapes in their mind's eye, but they still feel and perceive the rotation on some level of cognition.
I wonder how many people could've avoided being sucked into Yudkowsky's cult if they'd just read "Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?"
Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone.
