...stand back and look at what you’ve written. I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe. What connection could this… “Rationalist”-fanfic-thinking possibly have to the real fucking world?! This is not how urban legends work, how teenagers work, how speading disinformation works… not to mention the ethics of it (which would not come into play in practice, as you’d just get called out on your bullshit).
This sort of utter fucking idiocy comes from a long-time and highly-upvoted LW user! No wonder LW is already seen as a fucking joke in some circles, and not for the transhumanist/singularity stuff either.
...stand back and look at what you’ve written. I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe. What connection could this… “Rationalist”-fanfic-thinking possibly have to the real fucking world?! This is not how urban legends work, how teenagers work, how speading disinformation works… not to mention the ethics of it (which would not come into play in practice, as you’d just get called out on your bullshit).
This sort of utter fucking idiocy comes from a long-time and highly-upvoted LW user! No wonder LW is already seen as a fucking joke in some circles, and not for the transhumanist/singularity stuff either.
And/or, it was a joke.
Was this a joke?