/lit/ - Literature

>>18970159

HPMOR is so cringe in parts as to be unreadable, there is surprisingly little rationalist content and big yud can't write normies at all. the sequences are superior.

is he right that we should all be bayesians?

>If you really want an artist’s perspective on rationality, then read Orwell; he is mandatory reading for rationalists as well as authors. Orwell was not a scientist, but a writer; his tools were not numbers, but words; his adversary was not Nature, but human evil. If you wish to imprison people for years without trial, you must think of some other way to say it than “I’m going to imprison Mr. Jennings for years without trial.” You must muddy the listener’s thinking, prevent clear images from outraging conscience. You say, “Unreliable elements were subjected to an alternative justice process.”

>Orwell was the outraged opponent of totalitarianism and the muddy thinking in which evil cloaks itself—which is how Orwell’s writings on language ended up as classic rationalist documents on a level with Feynman, Sagan, or Dawkins.

>extreme intelligence
>zero pretension
>the highest intellectual honesty humanly achievable
>understands your counter-arguments better than you do, already refuted them
when did you realize the less wrongers are just too powerful? how do we cope? just plug our ears and call them bugmen?

>>15285603
Big Yud can't be refuted

>>15238510
It's biased for people too low IQ to understand the REAL modern philosophers - Big Yud

Pic related is unironic actual modern philosophy

Book that UNEQUIVOCALLY BTFO's Technocratic Rationalists? I seriously need this, these people are living rent free in my mind and it's driving me nuts!