OK, I can sort of understand your gripes with fanfiction in general (I have a few too, although they don’t outweigh the enjoyment factors for me), and author tracts (they don’t bother me). But why the hell should our community care about LW-fiction being “publishable”? For profit. On paper. Isn’t that kind of irrelevant here? Can you visualize a person who’d read a “rationalist fic”, but only if it was available to him* through 20th century channels?
*(sorry, switching to genderless pronouns is hard if you’re Russian)
Sorry to derail the thread, but when I spend basically half of my online time disproving stereotypes about Russians, comments like this don’t help our cause. I already get embarrassed at many of my people’s knowledge of English and basic tact—and it certainly doesn’t help when Russians themselves spread stupid stereotypes or Russian Reversal jokes because they find it “ironic”. By this point of endless repetition it’s not ironic, it’s just irritating when something like this is constantly thrown in your face.
Okay, tbh I understand your sentiment, but do you really feel that there’s much harm being done, from a consequentialist standpoint? Suppose you single-handedly demolished those stereotypes; would it make our country’s present condition and intellectual capability worthy of respect? You clearly know more about it than I do, given my near ignorance of academic affairs, but if you had any grounds for optimism, wouldn’t I have heard something too? I think our culture is done for, and let’s make the discussion private if you’ve any more to say on that.
[I get it, I get the lesson. This line of discussion stops here.]
OK, I can sort of understand your gripes with fanfiction in general (I have a few too, although they don’t outweigh the enjoyment factors for me), and author tracts (they don’t bother me). But why the hell should our community care about LW-fiction being “publishable”? For profit. On paper. Isn’t that kind of irrelevant here? Can you visualize a person who’d read a “rationalist fic”, but only if it was available to him* through 20th century channels?
*(sorry, switching to genderless pronouns is hard if you’re Russian)
Use “they”. I’m Russian, and I manage.
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Sorry to derail the thread, but when I spend basically half of my online time disproving stereotypes about Russians, comments like this don’t help our cause. I already get embarrassed at many of my people’s knowledge of English and basic tact—and it certainly doesn’t help when Russians themselves spread stupid stereotypes or Russian Reversal jokes because they find it “ironic”. By this point of endless repetition it’s not ironic, it’s just irritating when something like this is constantly thrown in your face.
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Okay, tbh I understand your sentiment, but do you really feel that there’s much harm being done, from a consequentialist standpoint? Suppose you single-handedly demolished those stereotypes; would it make our country’s present condition and intellectual capability worthy of respect? You clearly know more about it than I do, given my near ignorance of academic affairs, but if you had any grounds for optimism, wouldn’t I have heard something too? I think our culture is done for, and let’s make the discussion private if you’ve any more to say on that.
[I get it, I get the lesson. This line of discussion stops here.]