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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

The rationalists and effective altruists all love demanding that you read their actual writing before you judge them, and so I am in fact doing that. if they were as smart as they think they are, they’d have figured out that telling critics to actually read their work is a *terrible* strategy.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

here we find Eliezer Yudkowsky engaging in the classic 90s and 2000s genre of “insecure straight guy getting really defensive about liking Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

like my little dweeb homies, did it ever occur to you that many people might read your actual words and go “lol, you people are even more insane and stupid than I’d imagined”

embracebecoming.bsky.social
@embracebecoming.bsky.social

I won't day that Yud is categorically a bad writer. Certainly he is able to craft some good turns of phrase. But he is in dire need of an editor. You could cut any of his long form works in half and they'd be ten times more readable.

Count Xavier Van Damned
@charlesxavier.bsky.social

"Remember, I have no emotional need to be special. I've spent my whole life being special" The man's main professional accomplishment was creating a text-based message board! I didn't think I could hate him more, but I was wrong.