content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by
content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by
“It was bad that the New York Times called Scott a racist, because he’s a racist but in a way that makes it correct to be racist.”
oh holy shit I was only a handful of paragraphs in but he literally says that!!!
I wanted to see what kind of person would defend Scott, but disparage Murray so…
ctrl-f “Murray” read quote related ctrl-w
I almost don’t want to know what motte the author has set up to make Murray’s hereditarianism seem “obviously correct” and “sensible”. Are we supposed to ignore the cross burning and constant race science posting on twitter?
IMO, we don’t want to poke the hornet’s nest of Davis defending Murray, lest we get another 20k word sequence that we have to slog through to sneer at.
I’m so sorry to inform you…
(10,959 words… I don’t think I hate myself enough to read this one all the way through.)
Question is, where does the second part begin…
This circuitous, n-tuple negative tenor pervades the whole piece. It’s first and foremost frustrating, but after that just sad.
Everything about Zack is sad.
On this episode of Zach Depresses Me, I got hung up on his deeply sad aside about community college. A C isn’t to shame you in the contest proving your self-acquired knowledge is As Good™️ as college, it’s there to show you have room to grow in your skills. It’s great to be able to teach yourself things! It’s also great to be able to learn from other people. There’s no shame in not having pre-learned the entire curriculum.
I have to say, if you look past the, well, you know, stuff, he’s actually pretty decent at injecting pathos into the posts about his personal life. His writing does a good job bringing you into his extremely depressing/self-loathing inner world – you really feel for the guy, or at least I do. That said, it’s this exact effect which makes me think he is probably not perceiving things as lucidly as he thinks he is. Depression can feel like clarity, but that’s no way to live.
Yeah, exactly. And the lies his depression tells him feel absolutely true to him because his religion tells him you can reason out absolute truth and anyone who disagrees with it is ignorant or lying to you. He gaslights himself.
Y’all have nailed how I felt reading this. You have this fellow who has constructed a cognitive process to self-harm at every juncture. Whenever there is an opportunity to believe in something that could bring them joy or closure etc., they head in the opposite direction because of some tenet they think is “correct” or “obvious” even though said tenet usually has a paper-thin justification. Davis is haunted by an Imp of the perverse; that imp is named Yudkowsky.
* anyone who disagrees with it is a malicious and evil lying liar
I nominate this accidental called shot for Sneer Of The Week
Congrats at succeeding at an intellectual Turing test. And they say we strawman them.