We should really make Yudkowsky aware of this particular brand of paperclip maximization. We are in for horrible, HarrisonBergeron-esque stuff if an AGI will be programmed to achieve leftist goals.

People slight each other to negotiate status all the time. It's as common as any form of status signaling -- such as subtle bragging, which is of course difficult to minimize. If there's anything older than the hills, it's what you're diagnosing as new under the sun.

I don't know-the current complex of leftist thought is very useful as a tool for intragroup selection (for the most unquestioning followers and cynical unprincipled leaders) and for intraspecies competition (keeps out the ones with the bad ant smell, no matter how clever.) They are pretty safe from change from within and can keep playing this game indefinitely until the collapse from reproductive failure or the diminishing rate of returns on eating the seed corn. And microaggressions is no worse than the mainstream of 70's-90's feminist "thought."

You know, this kind of emotional fragility and petty irritability is some of the symptoms of terminal soy poisoning. Of course, vegetarianism is the pure essence of leftism applied to food, so no surprise there.

My interpretation is different. My interpretation is that the Reformation and the Enlightenment are finally over. We are entering a period much like the Middle Ages where the Left today plays the role that the Catholic Church played then. If you contradict the Left, you are a heretic. There is no more room for individual interpretation as allowed for by the Reformation, or an unbiased search for truth as allowed for by the Enlightenment. Those things are over. All that is left is to study and refine Leftist doctrine.

I had an operation at the hospital today. No anesthetic-- I have to check my "not allergic to painkillers" privilege. But on a more serious note. Stop acting like "leftism" is more powerful than it is-- if what you say is true, there would be no Republicans in the house or senate. Rather, the elites have found something very effective at distracting activists. Che will be so busy writing angry letters to the mall for not carrying paraplegic underwear, he'll be too preoccupied to hang any bankers.

if what you say is true, there would be no Republicans in the house or senate. There are no republicans in the house or senate, in the sense that no republican proposes a return to the policies of 2006

It should be pretty obvious that Republicans are worse than useless. They worship the MLK god and have surrendered on immigration, AA and feminism. They enthusiastically support the pointless wars that Dems pretend not to support. All they really stand for is low taxes for the rich and an Israel First foreign policy. .

Raise your hands if, upon reading this stuff, you really have to stifle the impulse to shout, "F*sking ridiculous pussies! Humorless, Infantile, victim-envious, emotional weaklings! Grow the f*sk up!" PC as hair-trigger rat traps, perpetually begging to find offense. Like new "civil rights" community organizer lawyers desperate to find even the most tenuous basis for a case. What happens when you can "cry wolf" endlessly and no one stops believing you? Even though everyone knows that the wolves are extinct! Ah, but do now we all bear the human stain of lupine contamination? Especially the paler ones? The sins of the fathers ... "Obliterate The Hate!" "Eradicate those who Intolerate!" And the night does not end.

I cannot help but wonder how many of those posts are not snarky attempts to scam the system, just to make them look uber lame... I myself left a "report" about someone saying, "I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition" and how that made me feel because, after all, I am half-spanish. Don't know if it'll get published but it is not nearly as absurd as some of the published ones. Hey, this could be a great game for reactionaries everywhere. I'm sure there's better snarks than me! At the very least we could push on the boundaries of approved victim groups until it becomes so big that EVERYONE, IN THE WHOLE WORLD EVER is a victim. Now THAT'S inclusivity!

I especially like the girls (usually girls) who happily throw thei parents and grandparents under the bus for the offense of merely looking out for the aggrieved's own good/sane interests. Grandma was such a c*nt to think I should be some sort of conventional woman that guys will like, and not be free to be the me... that I invented. Damn her to hell.

Well if it’s fucking invisible how is anyone supposed to know? Oh, but that level of thinking would require empathy. That's actually an excellent analysis that I haven't considered before: the idea that the progressive's hunt for inequality essentially stops him from being able to see things through someone else's eyes, which is, ironically, one of the theoretical pillars behind the hunt for inequality.

Modern leftism is mirrored Nazism with white people as the target but it can't yet come out openly and say that. As SWPLs try to wriggle out of being in the target group they need to invent victimologies that includes them in the not-white group. Similarly as white people conform to pressure and change their behavior e.g. not using certain words, then their attackers have to constantly invent new ways to be offended either themselves or on other people's behalf. It's a logical consequence of a genocidal ethnic hatred which is culturally dominant but not yet physically dominant.

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