<![CDATA[Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it]]>Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalists
Coxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everything
Coxon: nailed it

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/114a10d0-b352-4f35-8e0c-b8749fe172eb/coxon-oh-shit-don-t-give-away-how-deep-in-i-am-with-the-rationalistscoxon-i-m-totally-not-a-rationalist-i-just-hung-out-with-them-for-a-decade-because-i-admire-their-huge-swole-brains-and-how-right-they-are-about-everythingcoxon-nailed-itRSS for NodeMon, 21 Sep 2026 04:43:30 GMTWed, 16 Sep 2026 07:24:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:23:04 GMT]]>@abucci the other thing rationalists mean by "factual questions" is race science and eugenics

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117281166774757135https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117281166774757135Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:23:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:21:00 GMT]]>@davidgerard

"Correct about topics removed from daily experience"

Like the utility or viability of WorldCoin?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://iosdev.space/users/jonhendry/statuses/117281158628075478https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://iosdev.space/users/jonhendry/statuses/117281158628075478Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:21:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:19:52 GMT]]>@JeffGrigg the Rationalists are a different sort of creature! Look up LessWrong and Yudkowsky.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117281154180776818https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117281154180776818Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:19:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:10:05 GMT]]>@davidgerard

I consider myself a rationalist. I've even used the term "hyper-rationalist" for myself, at times.

But almost nothing he says there makes the slightest bit of sense to me.

Like, I wouldn't want to judge anyone for their polyamory or veganism, but I just don't see how those things are relevant.

…

[Looking up who "Jacob Coxon" is …]

Oh; he's *that* guy.

Why does anyone think this guy has anything remotely interesting (or rational) to say?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JeffGrigg/statuses/117281115663078363https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JeffGrigg/statuses/117281115663078363Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:10:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:03:43 GMT]]>@Jer why does the representation that polyamorous folks get have to be *checks notes* Zizians and SBF

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/robinsyl/statuses/117281090654914069https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/robinsyl/statuses/117281090654914069Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:03:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:20:51 GMT]]>@davidgerard I felt like I was having a stroke trying to read his part 😬

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fd00.space/users/nCrazed/statuses/117280922074912142https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fd00.space/users/nCrazed/statuses/117280922074912142Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:20:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:10:18 GMT]]>@davidgerard I’m doing what I can to hasten the Quornpocalypse!

@aslakr @tante

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paco/statuses/117280880637126970https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paco/statuses/117280880637126970Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:10:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:09:51 GMT]]>@davidgerard
this for some reason reminded me of sloppy thinking as a qualifier. it sure reads as slop (which was probably the connect my brain drew), but the qualifier is too mild. that shit there is in no way a form of thinking, at all

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.io/users/zeh/statuses/117280878832023207https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.io/users/zeh/statuses/117280878832023207Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:09:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:57:56 GMT]]>@AnarchoNinaWrites @davidgerard

“Im too rational to be controlled”

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cyberquixote/statuses/117280831994622161https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cyberquixote/statuses/117280831994622161Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:57:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:57:03 GMT]]>@davidgerard "Look, I don't know if you can call giving truckers handies through a glory hole at the rest stop "sex" per se..."

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://jorts.horse/users/AnarchoNinaWrites/statuses/117280828491404263https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://jorts.horse/users/AnarchoNinaWrites/statuses/117280828491404263Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:57:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:56:40 GMT]]>@davidgerard Why am I not surprised that Harry Frotter believes in this whole scene? It would also be interesting to know how much he was paid to spout this nonsense to a craven and credulous press.

I suspect the talk about a mutual cessation treaty is entirely down to the people funding this tripe demanding the promised returns on "investment" *right now*, meaning they need another way to say "look over there!" in financial jargon.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.wales/users/doombunny/statuses/117280826983960846https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://toot.wales/users/doombunny/statuses/117280826983960846Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:56:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:28:54 GMT]]>@davidgerard@circumstances.run
uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience
I wonder if they are uniquely able to be correct about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

I certainly trust them to be correct about factual questions
Factual questions, like those that are enmeshed with daily experience, which is what we tend to mean when we refer to "facts". Is he really trying to say "I trust them to be correct about questions concerning daily experience because they have specialized minds that are uniquely able to be correct about topics removed from daily experience."

He thinks we're all living in a giant sudoku puzzle, where we can "be correct" or "be incorrect" and we can know the difference and it's all tidy and easy (if you have a uniquely specialized mind). I suppose that sums up rationalists generally.
]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1789561734.872943https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1789561734.872943Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:28:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:26:10 GMT]]>@davidgerard can’t imagine why a dweeby 20-something is hanging out with Silicon Valley’s premier weird sex cult. Completely a surprise, who could ever have seen that one coming.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/117280707112773497https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weatherishappening.network/users/wordshaper/statuses/117280707112773497Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:26:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:29 GMT]]>@NewtonMark @davidgerard "I am intuitively opposed to polyamory, veganism, and consequentialist intuitions." 💀

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/celeduc/statuses/117280629653782170https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/celeduc/statuses/117280629653782170Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:39:17 GMT]]>@Jer @Dangerous_beans ah didn't click he meant the zizians

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280522760082725https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280522760082725Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:39:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:37:30 GMT]]>@davidgerard @Dangerous_beans I actually assume it's because he's distinguishing himself from the "dangerous rationalists" like the Zizians, who are vegan and polyamorous IIRC, and not the "good rationalists" like the fascists who believe that Christian Nationalists in the US are correct about everything practically, they just have the wrong god that they're worshiping

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chirp.enworld.org/users/Jer/statuses/117280515722841001https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chirp.enworld.org/users/Jer/statuses/117280515722841001Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:37:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:24:23 GMT]]>@davidgerard every crevice of this guy's navel has been committed to memory.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cybernetic.monster/users/Spirit/statuses/117280464136338736https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cybernetic.monster/users/Spirit/statuses/117280464136338736Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:24:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:03:32 GMT]]>@tante He doesn't have any "real" arguments. He admits himself its "intuition", but also just a form of ideological signalling to others, pandering to the fascists,... @davidgerard

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/ap/users/116131714469327007/statuses/117280382135899563https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://climatejustice.social/ap/users/116131714469327007/statuses/117280382135899563Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:03:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:02:40 GMT]]>@davidgerard @simon in fact, I learned how to not breathe at all. Ever.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/ap/users/116076117874354652/statuses/117280378767154057https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/ap/users/116076117874354652/statuses/117280378767154057Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:02:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:50:06 GMT]]>@jackielovescompchem32 they don't themselves call it "rationalism", they call it "rationality" and themselves "rationalists", as in The Cool Smart Guys Who Are Right that's our proper name you should address us by

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280329342475129https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280329342475129Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:50:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:48:50 GMT]]>@davidgerard “I am intuitively opposed to […] consequentialist intuitions” is an amazing self own.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Nicovel0/statuses/117280324348346825https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Nicovel0/statuses/117280324348346825Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:48:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:47:23 GMT]]>@aslakr @tante 10% chance quorn destroys humanity

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280318633876768https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280318633876768Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:47:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:46:14 GMT]]>@Dangerous_beans rationalists cover the entire spectrum from libertarian to neoreactionary, all race scientist

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280314151767761https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/117280314151767761Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:46:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Coxon: oh shit don't give away how deep in I am with the rationalistsCoxon: I'm totally not a rationalist, I just hung out with them for a decade because I admire their huge swole brains and how right they are about everythingCoxon: nailed it on Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:46:10 GMT]]>@gryphonmyers
Thanks, I hate it. Also, per wiki article about this guy: "His fanfiction novel Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality uses plot elements from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to illustrate topics in science and rationality."
Wtf XD
 @davidgerard

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