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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    So, a lesswrong suggests gathering “The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject,” where “tacit knowledge” is defined as “knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction”. The low-hanging fruit is that the recommendations under “Finance” are Keith “Roaring Kitty” Gill of GameStop fame… and Martin Shkreli.

    The higher-hanging fruit is the seeming conviction that just because a lesswrong saw somebody drone on about a thing in a YouTube video, it can’t be explained in written words.

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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      8 months ago

      Yeah i feel like there’s several obvious fruit on this tree:

      1. “Tacit” knowledge?

      2. YouTube is words, folks.

      3. Lots of things *are* difficult to learn from words, famously. Colors of you can’t see, flavors you haven’t experienced, emotions. You can’t learn them from video either.

      4. I personally would ask Shkreli advice on many things: How to earn hard time; How to go to the special hell: What’s the best song on Once Upon a Time in Shaolin? Maybe not on finance tho.

      • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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        8 months ago

        Wow the LW “tacit knowledge” root post is a trip.

        “This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual dark matter, pervading society in a million ways, some of them trivial, some of them vital. Examples include woodworking, metalworking, housekeeping, cooking, dancing, amateur public speaking, assembly line oversight, rapid problem-solving, and heart surgery.”

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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          8 months ago

          it strikes me that there’s quite a similarity in how the lesswrongs have this continuous drive for so-called “secret knowledge” to how others are about sacred geometry and “hidden universe secrets”. anyone else pick up on something like that?

          • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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            8 months ago

            I think of it as an evolved version of what a lot of the new age cults did with quantum woo — it’s a thin veneer of knowledge designed to trick folks who think they’re too smart for religion into a religious mindset. the Rationalist version of the veneer is particularly thick, but the end goal is the same: Magic is Real and You Can Be The Gandalf