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

  • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    (I think this is the best and most important post in the sequence; I suspect that many readers who didn’t and shouldn’t bother with the previous three posts, may benefit from this one.)

    that’s … wonderful, Zack

    also, I think this is the first mention of the Brennan email on LW?

    • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      I think this is the first mention of the Brennan email on LW?

      That is actually kind of weird… Did the lesswrong mods deliberately censor all discussion of the emails? (Out of a misplaced sense of respect for what gets the privilege of privacy? Or deliberately covering up the racism? Or the later disguised as the former?) They seem foundational to understanding Scott’s true motives, it seem like the emails should have at least warranted a tangential mention. Trying to clear this up… but searching for Brennan doesn’t help as an original fiction character has that name and searching for emails doesn’t help as it gets the Bostrom emails.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        so Scott has never addressed the email. Basically cos he can’t without hanging his ass out in public. The wider rationalist-sphere seems to have just chosen not to mention it in public. But well, there’s Zack for ya!