It’s clear what the narrative in your own head is, but the narrative in mine when I see this sort of thing is that you’re wearing one of these t-shirts.
Pre-empting other people’s rejection is, always and everywhere, a low status action, an acknowledgement that everyone around you is higher in the pecking order. It may not feel like that when you’re doing it, but that’s what it is. Yes, it’s even lower status to not even get taken notice of when you ask to be pissed on, but getting pissed on is not much of a step up, especially if some of the people pissing agree with the rest of what you have to say.
The thing is, you do actually have sensible things to say, when you aren’t playing the “kick me, that’ll show everyone” card. Mencius Moldbug, with whom your views have a lot in common, and you have mentioned favourably, has also been mentioned favourably here. I don’t see him saying “kick me”, and neither do you on your own blog. But every time you enter a public forum you put on the “kick me” shirt, and the more you get kicked, the more you lap it up.
Why are you here, anyway? So far you have only exercised a few of your own hobbyhorses. They may be interesting and important matters, and not only to you, but you obviously aren’t here to refine the art of human rationality. (Have you ever read anything by Eliezer Yudkowsky, for example?) You’re here to talk politics and get a warm glow of validation from hostile reactions from this bunch of people you heard of who are so arrogant as to call themselves Less Wrong.
It’s clear what the narrative in your own head is, but the narrative in mine when I see this sort of thing is that you’re wearing one of these t-shirts.
Pre-empting other people’s rejection is, always and everywhere, a low status action, an acknowledgement that everyone around you is higher in the pecking order. It may not feel like that when you’re doing it, but that’s what it is. Yes, it’s even lower status to not even get taken notice of when you ask to be pissed on, but getting pissed on is not much of a step up, especially if some of the people pissing agree with the rest of what you have to say.
The thing is, you do actually have sensible things to say, when you aren’t playing the “kick me, that’ll show everyone” card. Mencius Moldbug, with whom your views have a lot in common, and you have mentioned favourably, has also been mentioned favourably here. I don’t see him saying “kick me”, and neither do you on your own blog. But every time you enter a public forum you put on the “kick me” shirt, and the more you get kicked, the more you lap it up.
Why are you here, anyway? So far you have only exercised a few of your own hobbyhorses. They may be interesting and important matters, and not only to you, but you obviously aren’t here to refine the art of human rationality. (Have you ever read anything by Eliezer Yudkowsky, for example?) You’re here to talk politics and get a warm glow of validation from hostile reactions from this bunch of people you heard of who are so arrogant as to call themselves Less Wrong.