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"remember, i have no emotional need to be special" oh, i know this one, this is my brother throwing a tantrum about ppl touching his bike and then declaring to the people trying to find a practical solution to his emotional flailing that he's the only one not acting emotionally.

There's a recovery group for this at r/gifted on reddit

I wish I had recorded my wife yelling "I'm not reading this!"

Imagine getting this worked up over a show that isn't Nathan For You.

watching television the “design conditions” for the human brain?

it's my favourite season of the show lmfao

Tara Maclay would be my guess.

One of the last of a lost culture that left artifacts like:

The same way kids with unusual art backgrounds come out of art school, but if you really know the space you can pick out it's mostly secondhand derivation and they are faking it until they make it (which also jives with his entity history).

I think you're absolutely right about that.

Gotta debunk the idea that he's "mortal"

People freaked out over her going to college. Truly bizarre (Also Hush is such a good ep)

It sounds like everything is zero-sum for him. Especially intelligence. There's no sense that someone can be talented in one area and dumb in another, it's all conceived as a single hierarchized line, like IQ

"I'm the one specialist working on AI" 😂

Dropping "I have no emotional need to be special" in the middle of *this* might be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long, long time.

"I spent my whole life BEING special" ... Good lord, and the interviewer let him keep talking after that?

Lmao this is the very definition of Main Character Syndrome, “everyone loves Buffy because they wish they could be her, but I love Buffy because I AM her”

I know too many people like this guy. It's cringe. At some point I feel like it could easily have been me if I stopped maturing in middle school

there's definitely an alternate universe where the rationalist Bible is a Buffy fanfic

My “I have no emotional need to feel special” t-shirt is raising questions already answered by my t-shirt

If they would listen for like, a half hour or so they might learn something and instead of being resentful and angry, they’d actually feel connected to the rest of the human community

"On Why I Draw the Line at Hawaiian Shirts"

His sister seems much more normal than him tbh

I know his father. Moshe is very nice, actually.

"i have beliefs that would create a fanatic but i'm built different" halp

When I was in 1st grade I was such a problem child they took me to a child psychologist who gave me a bunch of tests and proceeded to tell my parents, in front of me, "He's disruptive because he's bored, because he's smarter than his teachers." This was a dumb thing to say and caused more problems.

I don't know why, but this just seems like a parody of a Douglas Coupland book excerpt circa 1996 or so. Just a parody of a parody.

I think he desperately needed some of the pitfalls of youth. Did anyone ever tell him to just listen for a while?

Reads like someone who didn't have any friends in highschool and is trying to reinvent themselves at Uni.

I do not get much sense that he has anything close to a normal emotional life. Not surprising given that he has expressed no empathy for others via his "philosophy". It is very easy to psychologically observe zero empathy. Was obvious with, say, Trump, from the beginning. It's deeply pathological

Here is Eliezer Yudkowsky explaining (like a very normal person who absolutely does not have some kind of acute personality disorder) why, on the basis of his childhood test scores, he is a special genius uniquely qualified to change the world: web.archive.org/web/20010309...

that's some bad writing

Reading this, I’ve got two thoughts: * This guy should have gotten more swirlies, wedgies, and rear admirals * oh my god shut the hell up

Obviously we can't diagnose over the Internet, but could his struggles be related to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexith...

With a lazy streak.

Not that it's the biggest point, but anosognosia isn't necessarily - or even *mostly* - related to loss of limb movement. It's certainly a significant % of cases, i.e. after strokes, but shows up even more commonly when it creates a barrier to treatment among people with .. severe mental illnesses.

Wh...what the hell was that I just read?

People who mistake self-mythologizing for self-awareness are scary as hell

This sort of solipsism is normal in tweens & young teens. It's a side effect of developing abstract reasoning but lacking theory of mind for other people yet. You're literally supposed to grow out of it.

I don't think I understood a single thing he was trying to say here

I imagine that this is what walking around in a world full of kettles feels like.

"I'm smart enough to have avoided most or all of the pitfalls of youth" is a real "Charlie Brown had hoes" level of statement. No you aren't. That isn't true.

the more stuff about this guy i find out (partially against my will) the more ive come to the realization that this is a man who has almost no one in his family who love him enough to tell him things like “no” or “not everything is gonna go your way in life”

He seems like a whacko who never had friends

It all reads like the late night ramblings of someone on a 1998 BBS, costing everyone credits and ruining the conversation as they post giant blocks of text. Never got the deserved kick, or showed up to meatspace events to be teased about it and turn into a proper human.

I feel like there's a really underappreciated angle in all of this of how the Bay Area is just Like This and Does This to people.

Oh shit, I basically made the same point before reading the whole thread.

Out of curiosity, where did this come from? Who invited this guy to ramble on?

I'm sure there are many blatantly obvious facts he is incapable of perceiving.

I also read and was fascinated by Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat but it’s worth remembering that Sacks made up a lot of the things in that book and also was recently revealed to have knowingly mistook a famous abusive pedophile for a colleague and friend

Don’t, Moshe isn’t that great a guy, though we have plenty of mutual friends who might disagree with me about that.

Nora Ephron's 'Tragedy of the Little Jewish Prince' theory remains undefeated.

This is definitely not the only reason the internet was a mistake but it is also undeniably a reason the internet was a mistake

“Besides Willow was the prime hotness on Buffy.”

Hey now, Hawaiian shirts have done nothing wrong

He maybe has yet to get to that level. Meanwhile Palmer Luckey is holding space for him with a vengeance

I picture him in stripes as wide as Charlie Brown’s zagging line shirt just really really str8

As far as I can tell from recent discourse, Yud prefers to wear nothing, so I think I’m ok with reclaiming the aloha shirt

I had an ENTIRE phase and it coincided with a couple years of datelessness but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

That response is exactly this. youtu.be/9-471s6vyAU?...

oh my GOD you're so right

It's like the AIs all trained on this sloppy mess of logical inconsistency & nonsense.

That's one of the most cringe things I've read in quite a while. I too am a Buffy fan, by the way. I liked Buffy because it was fucking awesome.

"So he is mortal after all." I am going to die from secondhand cringe.

All this shit is so painful to watch.

I like the extremely thin swipes at baywatch just to try to puff his face up by contrast Not at all massively insecure or anything

This is like the Rick and Morty copypasta in real life.

This was a funny bit when David Simon did it (people asked him what he thought of "the greatest TV show ever" being made a joke in some "musical The Wire" video. He told them they must be thinking of Buffy), but this is just intensely cringe because I think he actually means it.

Who could possibly talk this way about themselves?!?!?????

.5-1 generation earlier and he doesn't emerge.

I liked Buffy well enough. The misogyny and racism meant it always left a bad after taste in my mouth. Whedon tended to put those in anything he did.

Ugh. Buffy and B-5 were legitimately my favourite shows for about 20 years. (B-5 is still up there though I couldn’t enjoy Buffy so much after me too and all the gross Joss stuff came out.) Regardless they had identity-forming level influence on me. I dislike having so much in common with monsters

Hoo-boy. “Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I've spent my whole life being special.”

Yes! It's the funniest and most chaotic season and I love it.

Maybe for some people. But not us.

Right??!? The *entire point of the show* was that monsters and magic will serve as metaphors.

This is absolutely someone who has a sip of soda and remarks on the quality of the water base.

basically the subject of interest of this study lol

Buffy would shove a pointy stick in that guy and say "Oh, my bad" when he didn't turn to dust. Giles would scold her but his heart wouldn't really be in it.

Yeah, I couldn’t finish it either. The cringe was too powerful.

“Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I've spent my whole life *being* special.”

My "I do not watch Baywatch, and I see no reason why people should assume that I watch Buffy for the same reason they watch Baywatch" T-shirt has people asking more questions already answered by the shirt.