I’d like to actually discuss the problems I perceive with Yudkowsky‘s take for a moment, before everyone can go on with telling each other how crap his opinion is.
First, quantifying emotional states is hard, if not impossible at the moment. This could easily lead to misconceptions and misunderstandings, as it is not clear what x% “better” means.
Second, people probably don’t always want to live in constant fear of getting dumped by their partners. I mean, I get it, if you are in a relationship where you would leave your partner for someone else it’s definitely not a bad idea to be clear about that, but I don’t think that is the norm at all in relationships “even” apart from marriage. So his tweet about marriages being an agreement to ignore other options is not wrong itself, but he seems to lack the understanding that many relationships outside of marriage include this social contract as well.
Especially in a monogamous relationship, this view does not seem to make sense to me as it’s just a possibly emotionally hurtful way to tell your partner about your fear of commitment.
Presumably your partner is not going to say, “You said that you would leave for a new person if they were 35% better, and Alex is clearly 70% better than me for you!” If for some reason at that time you felt your amount was 75% better so you stayed.
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The guy on the bottom panel is Jon Jafari who runs the YouTube channel “jontron” a couple years ago he went down the alt-rught rabbit hole, said some yikes stuff on twitter and ended up doing a long debate with another youtuber called destiny because of some comments he made in response to Steve King talking about immigrants.
On this debate he ended up digging himself deeper, bringing up the white genocide/great replacement conspiracy. Saying the most well off black man is still more likely to be a criminal than the poorest white man, claimed we’ve ended discrimination in the west, courts don’t treat minorities differently, Mexicans are trying to retake American land, and that Irish and Italians were never discriminated against because they were always considered white.
It was a very much trump style rambling incoherent rant that kind of just showed he doesn’t really have a defined set of beliefs but had just been caught up in the right wing disinformation machine. I personally wouldn’t call him a white supremacist, but he certainly believes a lot of the same stuff as they do.
No, when people called him put he just kind of complained about being misinterpreted or being called a nazi. Didn’t walk anything back or apologies, but did say he won’t tweet political shit anymore.
Although I don’t have any direct experience with any of this, I deny your lived experience of not having that problem - I think you’re a lying liar and that thing you like is bad.
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