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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  1. if you can and do drop $10K to practice flirting with paid conference staff in the "VIP" space of a conference, you are without hope for genuine connection in this world.

  2. the "therapist/orgy organizer" professional title combo is giving me "sexual predator/procurer" vibes.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

big-yud's partner and former head of comms of his org MIRI btw.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

had to look this guy up. never went to college or high school, but somehow gets to be called a "researcher" and gets published in media and invited to speak at institutions just for writing articles relying on his own thought experiments and vibes as evidence.

a scifi hollywood screenwriter has more to contribute to this topic than this fucking bozo.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Hey now, you're missing his most important qualification: he wrote a laughably bad ~~objectivist~~ edit: rationalist harry potter fanfiction!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rationalist. Objectivist is Ayn Rand which this isn't quite.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are correct, but I hope you can understand how I got those confused lol.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Of course, easy mistake to make.

[–] reader@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly the parallels are huge... Influential "philosophical movement"s, considered crackpots by most but widely read among business elite. Ayn Rand also basically used objectivism and her students/proteges as a sex cult, similarly to how EA/Rationalism have spawned multiple.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

It is almost as if they have philosophical parallels in their views of other individuals and their personal expectation of care.

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

He also specifically denounced Ayn Rand in said fic.