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Diego Caleiro, who popped up on my radar after he commiserated with Roko’s latest in a never-ending stream of denials that he’s a sex pest, is worthy of a few sneers.
For example, he thinks Yud is the bestest, most awesomest, coolest person to ever breathe:
Yudkwosky is a genius and one of the best people in history. Not only he tried to save us by writing things unimaginably ahead of their time like LOGI. But he kind of invented Lesswrong. Wrote the sequences to train all of us mere mortals with 140-160IQs to think better. Then, not satisfied, he wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to get the new generation to come play. And he founded the Singularity Institute, which became Miri. It is no overstatement that if we had pulled this off Eliezer could have been THE most important person in the history of the universe.
As you can see, he’s really into superlatives. And Jordan Peterson:
Jordan is an intellectual titan who explores personality development and mythology using an evolutionary and neuroscientific lenses. He sifted through all the mythical and religious narratives, as well as the continental psychoanalysis and developmental psychology so you and I don’t have to.
At Burning Man, he dons a 7-year old alter ego named “Evergreen”. Perhaps he has an infantilization fetish like Elon Musk:
Evergreen exists ephemerally during Burning Man. He is 7 days old and still in a very exploratory stage of life.
As he hinted in his tweet to Roko, he has an enlightened view about women and gender:
Men were once useful to protect women and children from strangers, and to bring home the bacon. Now the supermarket brings the bacon, and women can make enough money to raise kids, which again, they like more in the early years. So men have become useless.
And:
That leaves us with, you guessed, a metric ton of men who are no longer in families.
Yep, I guessed about 12 men.
What exactly were 50% or so of those strangers?
This is something that keeps bothering me about these savior complex fantasies of gender. A good man defeats a bad man because ???
@bitofhope @sneerclub Well, that excuse breaks down once the “strangers” are mostly human. The most important human threats are not fundamentally addressable with aggression/brute force.
The valid modern justification for men is that we add diversity of thought due to the neuroplastic effects of long-term testosterone and a convenient means of maintaining genetic churn through sexual recombination. We are basically a diversity tool, a hedge against stagnation.