3- Performative overconfidence can go suck a bag of dicks.
4- If you’re going to talk unfalsifiable twaddle out of your ass, at least fucking warn us first.
These are my favorites, because you don’t even have to go looking at the other suggestions to find suggestions they violate. Performative overconfidence about performative overconfidence is a perfect little closed loop of self contradiction, and there’s no warning about “talking unfalisifiable twaddle out of your ass” in the course of spouting twaddle out of your ass <3
(And least presumably it is twaddle… I have to admit I’m not sure how exactly I’d falsify a claim that something is “twaddle” or not.)
More seriously, I like how, despite being a dumpster fire of self contradiction, there’s still something to admire here in a humanistic sense. The small clean contrast between the semantic content and the way the rules are instantly violated by exhortations to follow them seems educationally valuable.
Like the story about the logical positivists is that they somehow collapsed under the weight of their own scorn for bullshit, because their tools, taken seriously, and aimed at their tools, found their tools to be full of flaws and to have been admixed with a lot of the bullshit they were trying to escape…
And yet I love the logical positivists because bullshit is bad, and I have occasionally called myself a neo-logical-positivist because the logical positivists were on the right track and headed towards the correct attractor (even if they weren’t there yet in the 1930s).
Similarly, here, despite it being a parody… this is also pointing at the “least wrong attractor”. Apparently we are still not there, but hopefully we are closer? :-)
EDIT TO ADD: Obviously I strongly downvoted this. Raemon is wise. Is there some underappreciated high quality thing you’ve written elswhere on LW that I could go read and give a compensatory upvote?
Parody is great!
These are my favorites, because you don’t even have to go looking at the other suggestions to find suggestions they violate. Performative overconfidence about performative overconfidence is a perfect little closed loop of self contradiction, and there’s no warning about “talking unfalisifiable twaddle out of your ass” in the course of spouting twaddle out of your ass <3
(And least presumably it is twaddle… I have to admit I’m not sure how exactly I’d falsify a claim that something is “twaddle” or not.)
More seriously, I like how, despite being a dumpster fire of self contradiction, there’s still something to admire here in a humanistic sense. The small clean contrast between the semantic content and the way the rules are instantly violated by exhortations to follow them seems educationally valuable.
Like the story about the logical positivists is that they somehow collapsed under the weight of their own scorn for bullshit, because their tools, taken seriously, and aimed at their tools, found their tools to be full of flaws and to have been admixed with a lot of the bullshit they were trying to escape…
And yet I love the logical positivists because bullshit is bad, and I have occasionally called myself a neo-logical-positivist because the logical positivists were on the right track and headed towards the correct attractor (even if they weren’t there yet in the 1930s).
Similarly, here, despite it being a parody… this is also pointing at the “least wrong attractor”. Apparently we are still not there, but hopefully we are closer? :-)
EDIT TO ADD: Obviously I strongly downvoted this. Raemon is wise. Is there some underappreciated high quality thing you’ve written elswhere on LW that I could go read and give a compensatory upvote?