I read shit like this and then wonder where the fuck are the mysterious assassins when the world needs them so much
Guys like this should be terrified to step outdoors, not making big fucking speeches and presentations
Unfortunately, I instantly recognized the origin of the Blue/Red/Gray "tribe" thing and it's Slate Star Codex.
(Summary of all ten million words: liberals say they're tolerant because they tolerate gays and foreigners, but they don't tolerate Republicans, so who's the intolerant ones now? But with so many ponderous little parables about obvious things that the post becomes Thoughtful And Measured through sheer length.)
(In fairness, the post ends with "The worst thing that could happen to this post is to have it be used as convenient feces to fling at the Blue Tribe whenever feces are necessary" and concluding that self-criticism within the Gray Tribe is what he really wants. In unfairness, that is not what the preceding hundred billion words were driving towards.)
One of the many annoying things about the rationalist/techbro complex is that they absolutely refuse to check if anyone has ever had an idea before them, even if the idea is literally just "what if oppression... was political??? 🤯🤯🤯"
The whole techbro mindset seems to be organized around a painstakingly safeguarded premise of complete intellectual originality that can't ever be questioned, because it's a mortal sin to make a techbro doubt himself, and it leads to the present situation: a myriad elite geeks who all believe in roughly the same authoritarian and bigoted things, but who each imagines that they've arrived at their beliefs through a wholly original and independent process of empirical discovery (i.e. stringing together scraps and fragments of Dark Intellectual discourse and bits of Joe Rogan shows and other such material.) ~Chara
