Agreeing With Stalin in Ways That Exhibit Generally Rationalist Principles — LessWrong
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> It was not the sight of Mitchum that made him sit still in horror. It was the realization that there was no one he could call to expose this thing…

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

  • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.