Bloody hell, WaPo is havin' a normal one today, I see. Seriously, what is this disingenuous schlock?

JasonNecks · 2022-03-21T05:00:40+00:00

"The science remains unsettled."

There have been heaps and heaps of essays and books written to debate the question "Is there a God?" Unless you've done a lot of reading, anything you have to add to the conversation is probably not new and does not take into account all rebuttals. Does that mean no one has the right to decide whether or not there is a God unless they've read 1000 books? I would say no. The same applies for debates over Many Worlds Theory or any other number of questions.

JasonNecks · 2021-12-15T02:12:16+00:00

This isn't the rational group, this is the relatively rational group.

JasonNecks · 2021-12-04T23:38:03+00:00

No, nothing like that.

JasonNecks · 2021-11-28T09:43:59+00:00

I did some research and this wasn't do to with the school board thing. It was something to do with voter data being hacked, or some voting thing being hacked. Not school board voting, it was a different vote. Look it up if you don't believe me, I'm going to sleep soon and I don't want to find the links right now. I doubt she's guilty of anything to do with hacking though, so it's still somewhat outrageous.

JasonNecks · 2021-11-21T05:30:35+00:00

I'm not against trans people or men who like them or whatever. I think I may be more moderate than some GC people. I just think there are some policy decisions (prisons, shelters, illegal speech, detrans issues, the consent of minors, dubious approach to medical intervention, munchausen by proxy, government statistics, etc) that aren't being made sensibly.

JasonNecks · 2021-11-19T02:29:52+00:00

I don't know if this person is really that mad.

JasonNecks · 2021-11-10T05:43:23+00:00

https://www.readthesequences.com/Disputing-Definitions

This essay is the definitive end to all arguments over definitions.

JasonNecks · 2021-11-05T03:49:15+00:00

The cached observation about rationalwiki is that any group dedicated to criticizing the rationality of others instead of improving their own rationality is pretty much doomed as an intellectual project.

JasonNecks · 2021-10-28T23:13:59+00:00

I would be interested to see a response to those essays, I haven't looked into the matter too much.

JasonNecks · 2021-10-24T15:43:17+00:00

Well, there are some studies that show that parts of a trans person's brain are sort of similar to their preferred sex. But I'm (somewhat) skeptical of those studies. Even if they show what they purport to show, which they might not, I think there are nuances that are worth exploring.

Also this is a great essay that is worth reading: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religion/

JasonNecks · 2021-10-20T21:09:19+00:00

I guess the idea is that transmen are less threatening to women than biomen. Which is true. Unfortunately, this suggests that transwomen are more threatening to women than biowomen.

JasonNecks · 2021-10-17T03:14:03+00:00

Generally speaking, I think we should be tolerant towards the elderly and be willing to make personal sacrifices for their comfort, even if it goes against one's political goals or pride or whatever. Being old is very unpleasant for a lot of people, and we should try to be considerant of that.

JasonNecks · 2021-10-15T23:13:27+00:00

She's over 18. So you're using the word groom wrong. Or at least you're using it with a non-standard definition.

JasonNecks · 2021-10-12T22:52:06+00:00

It's not "Please, do not abort the baby."

It's "Please, do not abort DaBaby"

DaBaby is a rapper who people are trying to cancel.

JasonNecks · 2021-08-21T04:25:00+00:00

The majority of women on there would make more money with a real job anyway.

Well if you're really curious, some people find it difficult to find or hold a normal job, due to bad social skills or whatever other reason. And some people might have some sort of personal issue that makes it hard for them to work a set schedule, requiring them to find a job where they can choose their own hours.

Don't attack me for being pro-sex work or whatever, I'm just filling in details. Nuance.

JasonNecks · 2021-08-15T06:18:38+00:00

You're right, he's not severely autistic. But you know what I mean.

JasonNecks · 2021-08-12T04:05:31+00:00

You're not wrong, but you should know that Chris Chan is pretty severely autistic. Just FYI.

JasonNecks · 2021-08-08T08:44:41+00:00

If you're wondering why I'm not sharing the kiwifarm link or her name, it's not just because this woman might be innocent. It's also because I don't really believe in online shaming campaigns punishing people in ways that be the responsibility of the legal system*. Sometimes it might be necessary for an online campaign against someone to exist in order for the legal system to take interest in said person. Her University has supposedly already been informed of the accusations and has added them to the University's investigation. Presumably the trial of Chris Chan will deal with these accusations as well.

*Although of course if someone commits a horrific crime like murder and gets off with a light sentence, it is tempting to raise awareness about this person if they own businesses that can be boycotted. But that's a separate issue.

JasonNecks · 2021-08-05T03:25:15+00:00

Let us not forget that this story was broken by kiwifarms. Without them, this woman would still be being abused.

JasonNecks · 2021-07-31T18:11:51+00:00

Right-wing internet historians on kiwifarms broke the story.

Kiwifarms has a reputation for abusive trolling, but they swear that they've moved on from that and that now they just document weird people without contacting them.

JasonNecks · 2021-07-29T19:13:21+00:00

This seems like a clear-cut situation of "live and let live".

JasonNecks · 2021-07-24T01:10:05+00:00

She should probably read this blog series from a detransitioner: https://hormonehangover.substack.com/p/top-surgery-regret-part-1

JasonNecks · 2021-07-22T21:09:55+00:00

A chemist is someone who understands the rules and behaviors of matter on a deep level, not just how individual chemicals react with each other.

Likewise, the only way to truly protect your children from foolishness is to teach them to be wise in a general sense, not just individual examples of wise beliefs.

But aside from that, I would convince a child of something in pretty much the same way that I would convince an adult of something. With reasonable, fair points. Is there someone who you know to be reasonable/not gullible/open-minded/able to think clearly about politically touchy topics? Imagine what you would say to them to convince them.

I often see people who weight arguments as strong that I don't think are that strong. With that in mind, I advise you to be self-critical and really think hard about whether your argumentation is well-formed. Don't just speak off the top of your head.

There are a lot of guidelines for how to think and communicate clearly and effectively, I can't really list them all here.

JasonNecks · 2021-07-18T06:16:37+00:00

I don't really care about pronouns.

JasonNecks · 2021-07-17T02:26:12+00:00

The moral of the story is that politics fills people with outrage, and that outrage causes people to treat each other with cruelty, especially online. I have renounced this spiteful cruelty-for-the-sake-of-cruelty, and I encourage all internet users to do the same.

JasonNecks · 2021-07-14T02:58:57+00:00

There was a guy in the US who killed the man who molested his son while the molester was in police custody. I think he got off light. I think the legal system didn't really want to put the man in jail. Could be a case of sexism, or differences between the US and UK, or various objective level differences like quick death vs slow and painful or the fact that his killing happened soon after the incident while this one happened a long time after. Tough to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauch%C3%A9

JasonNecks · 2021-07-14T03:44:22+00:00

I don't use this word lightly but... these books seem awfully formulaic!

JasonNecks · 2021-06-06T06:52:24+00:00

This post seems disingenuous.

JasonNecks · 2021-06-06T06:35:19+00:00

Thank you Bill of Rights. Thank you Founding Fathers. Thank you 1st Amendment. Thank you god for giving me the fortune to be born in a country with a tradition of respecting some basic freedoms.

JasonNecks · 2021-05-18T23:19:36+00:00

People have invested too much belief-energy to change their minds about this that quickly.

JasonNecks · 2021-05-13T03:19:53+00:00

"9k upvotes on: "a bitchy girlfriend making a scene in public is ABUSE AND IS TOTALLY AS SERIOUS AS A WOMAN BEING RAPED AND BEAT UP AND TERRIFIED":"

Being slapped is abuse. The comparison between being raped and being slapped comes from you, not the comic or any of the top commentors.

Also your description of that second link isn't accurate either.

"Swedish study suggests hiring discrimination is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations"

Is that really so hard to believe? It's just an article about female-dominated occupations, not society at large.

I think you're in a mode where you have to attack all "enemy arguments" no matter how modest the point being made is.

JasonNecks · 2021-05-09T17:27:59+00:00

Looking at the name "Puking Guile", I think it's worth considering that the writer may be being ironic. I'm not going to look up the account to check.

JasonNecks · 2021-05-02T14:02:46+00:00

What state?

JasonNecks · 2021-04-28T06:07:28+00:00

A law that is unjust to enforce completely is an unjust law. People complaining about the law being enforced selectively aren't the problem in my opinion. Either get rid of the law or enforce it evenly, but no honest person should desire to live in a country where the laws on paper are not the actual laws as practiced.

Edit: I understand this might seem like I'm caring about something abstract when there's a much more straightforward problem at hand, but the health of the legal system is very important and sometimes victim to subtle maladies.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-19T00:50:37+00:00

Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kentler

JasonNecks · 2021-04-18T23:47:27+00:00

But it's not a euphemism, it's a subcategory. I guess it does have sort of a euphemistic effect if people don't believe sex surrogates are prostitutes but they are, but... I still feel my point stands. If you get rid of the term "sex surrogates", then you now lack a term to distinguish the subcategory from the broader whole.

From my perspective it feels like you're manipulating the language by claiming that two words with different definitions are actually identical. I'm not saying you should have a different moral opinion of the two things, but they do have different definitions, objectively.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-18T05:59:33+00:00

It's not incorrect to call these women sex surrogates, because they are sex surrogates. Sex surrogate being a subcategory of prostitute. You might not recognize it is a meaningful subcategory, but you didn't say that.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-11T07:10:17+00:00

Actually, it is a fetish. That's sort of the problem. Or one of the problems, anyway.

Edit: I'm not being snarky, I think it's pretty broadly known among TRAs that this fetish exists.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-11T07:14:29+00:00

I'm in favor of not being mean to people. I dislike it when people are mean to me, so I have decided to help contribute to non-meanness by not being mean myself.

Enjoying causing people pain is bad.

'Remember when our culture was healthy enough that movie-Yoda would say "Fear is the path that leads to the Dark Side", because "Hatred and enjoying inflicting hurt actually is the Dark Side" was too obvious and widely understood to sound wise?' https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1051876423818870785

JasonNecks · 2021-04-06T04:07:18+00:00

From the article:

“If you’re genuinely not interested in a certain set of binary genitalia, that’s okay; you shouldn’t have sex with someone that you don’t want to,”

This is the same as saying that it is okay to be super straight.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-03T16:23:11+00:00

The person in the stock image looks under 18. That at least should be an infraction.

JasonNecks · 2021-04-02T03:48:48+00:00

scrolling

Well well, this all seems to be in order-

Hey, wait a minute!

Where the FUCK is Zendaya?!?!

JasonNecks · 2021-03-28T05:51:01+00:00

There is no master plan, it's just the messed up way our culture evolved. No one is actually looking at things from above and choosing it to be this way, it's just a lot of different cogs in the machine of civilization reacting with each other. That may be an obnoxious metaphor for me to use here, but hopefully my meaning is grasped anyway.

JasonNecks · 2021-03-21T20:02:30+00:00

Let's not forget the AAP is responsible for millions of circumcisions on unconsenting males.

JasonNecks · 2021-03-21T03:40:10+00:00

"The markets can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent." - Keynes

You're predicting a situation where a big, (extremely) powerful, mainstream political movement (in this case Social Justice Progressivism) admits that it is wrong about something. Before making a prediction, we should think hard about what this might look like.

Will it be relatively sudden, or relatively gradual? What is the breaking point for something like this? What historical examples can we look to?

The first historical example of a bunch of people changing their mind about politics that leaps out at me is a significant portion of European and American Socialist Leftists going from pro-USSR to anti-USSR after the Hungarian Revolution was violently suppressed by the Soviet government in 1956. There were many signs before this that the USSR was not a good country to idolize, and maybe a few leftists gave up their pro-soviet stance before 1956, but that was the turning point. I think that the prospects for the progressive left having some sort of political awakening about the threat (to biowomen prisoners, to children who are likely to regret dubious medical intervention, and to adults who also regret dubious medical intervention more often than people realize) is less good than the prospects for the socialist left having a political awakening about the Soviet Union were before the Hungarian Revolution.

A revolution in Eastern Europe is harder to ignore than prisoners being raped or the suffering of detrans children or adults. The New York Times has to report on a revolution, they don’t have to report on the latter two. They certainly didn’t say anything when Jamie Shupe went detrans. There would have to be a truly sensational detrans incident to force the New York Times to report on it, and even then they might be able to bury it on page eight. Even a celebrity’s name attached to the story might not be enough to get coverage. If, god forbid, a famous female prisoner was raped by a TiM then that would make the news, but how many famous female current prisoners can you name?

I think 2030 is very optimistic, barring some sort of black swan event. That’s the date at which I would expect to see some GC victories in the realm of women’s sports, but little more than that.

Everything I just said goes for the US, I’m not making any predictions about the UK.

JasonNecks · 2021-03-17T02:35:12+00:00

Kind of makes Westboro Baptist Church seem tame in comparison.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-24T23:17:40+00:00

Speaking as someone who thinks the detransition issue is more important than women's sports, I think a lot of you may agree with me, I hope we progress to focusing more on that as a culture soon.

Obviously I realize that these issues are "compliments" and not just "substitutes", to speak in crass economic terms.

I do think women's sports are important, although I don't have much of an emotional connection to male or female sports, generally.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-15T05:09:12+00:00

It's no less real than guitar vs piano, or pamphlet vs book. Or glove vs shoe.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-14T07:52:46+00:00

Good input, you know more about this than I do. Thank you.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-14T07:57:36+00:00

I had not heard about this. I looked it up and they did not create it, they only bought the rights to distribute it. Still, it's a good start. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-14T07:52:27+00:00

Thank you for your response, that didn't occur to me.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-13T03:55:53+00:00

I like her.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-13T04:11:44+00:00

This seems like an uphill battle. You don't just need five actors who don't care about being blacklisted by hollywood, you need cameramen, a director, an assistant director, a cinematographer, a screenwriter, etcetera.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-09T08:19:55+00:00

Ideology can prevent people from seeing things that are obvious.

JasonNecks · 2021-02-07T10:15:52+00:00

Well, most people don't know the word "autogynephile"

JasonNecks · 2020-12-27T20:15:04+00:00

https://www.psypost.org/2020/11/new-study-sheds-light-on-why-women-tend-to-have-greater-animosity-towards-political-opponents-58680

Well, women do have more animosity towards their political opponents then men (at least in the US). It's pretty well replicated. Some on this subsaidit might have their reasons for doubting the data on this one, and that's fine. It's okay to be skeptical.

Why are women more politically animositous (jk, I know that's not a real word) than men? I wouldn't care to speculate.

JasonNecks · 2020-12-20T04:18:55+00:00

"caming" is the ugliest word in the english language

JasonNecks · 2020-12-18T19:57:14+00:00

I also live in the most liberal city in America and I have been fortunate enough to find friends who are on the same page as me politically. And some who aren't but who are open-minded and who I can relate to intellectually. I wish you the same bounty that I have. Stay strong.

JasonNecks · 2020-12-16T22:18:18+00:00

Got it.

JasonNecks · 2020-12-16T05:44:31+00:00

"as someone who has dealt with exploitation personally"

JasonNecks · 2020-12-16T02:01:33+00:00

Would you mind if I asked you what happened?

JasonNecks · 2020-12-11T02:59:11+00:00

Not a super intellectually rigorous article. Not a bad article either.

If you (yes, you!) want to get really really angry, look up Dylan Hafertepen.

JasonNecks · 2020-12-02T02:50:33+00:00

Empathy in general has been on the decline, at least in surveys of college students. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-empathy-gap/201006/the-end-empathy

JasonNecks · 2020-11-25T21:12:14+00:00

"I don't even want to masturbate because all the things that turn me on are also triggers"

This is a difficult and mysterious problem to treat. I think a lot of therapists would just generate some sort of BS solution according to the rules of whatever is most politically correct for them to say, not necessarily what would work best. Even a therapist who is willing to be guided by something other than political expediency in their treatment might still have their healer/scientist's investigation sabotaged by their own unwillingness to be un-pc. There are probably therapists who have the right mindset to treat this problem. I don't know if those people are rare or not, but I wish you the best. A good source of help (possibly a therapist) will help you, but first you need to take it on yourself to get good at finding that good source of help, like a treasure hunter.

My actual advice: I'm not an expert, but mindfulness has helped me with some things. Just becoming aware of negative and positive thoughts, and reacting to those thoughts with detached and placid understanding. Still having the strong emotions, but also having a neutral observer in my head that says "I'm feeling very strongly about this right now."

JasonNecks · 2020-11-25T20:59:57+00:00

"Do you like to flick off pro lifers?"

I think this should say "flip off". No one "flicks off" pro lifers. I don't know whether she made the mistake or the person who transcribed her did.

JasonNecks · 2020-11-25T20:58:02+00:00

I'm also not crazy about people who wear gimp suits or whatever weird or explicit or weirdly explicit outfit in public. They have the right to do so, certainly, but they are violating the preferences of others. It's tough to say whether the satisfaction they get from doing so is outweighed by the discomfort of others. I don't know, it's a tricky issue. I guess I can see both sides of it.

With drawing a picture of Muhammad, people just do that because they're angry at Muslims for killing people who do it. But it's not like the people who draw Muhammad are spray-painting their drawings on the street where lots of bad and good Muslims will see it. To the extent that people actually go out of their way to place their drawings of Muhammad where people who don't want to see it will see it... that's bad. And the same applies to sexuality.

Although I'm not as anti-sex-in-advertising as a lot of other people here, I think.

JasonNecks · 2020-10-19T02:20:14+00:00

Speaking broadly, I'd say that being friends with someone with opposing beliefs isn't just not bad, but it's actually good. There's a lot of reasons why I think it's good, but one that I hope everyone can get behind is that such friendships are one thing that makes it possible for one or both of the friendship dyad to grow as a person.

JasonNecks · 2020-10-05T23:14:20+00:00

"I'll upload the screenshot once I figure out how" Be embarrassed about that!

JasonNecks · 2020-09-30T19:18:07+00:00

Nice research

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