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2026-06-30 22:15 UTC

I mean as far as I can tell he’s one of the least objectionable prominent rationalists, if only because his main thing is pushing an extreme position wrt animal consciousness instead of being a eugenics and incelism dabbler.

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-07-01 04:01

Yeah. For being a little strange I find the shrimp welfare stuff pretty unobjectionable. Like, he vastly overstates the magnitude of good done by those stunners because he does appear to be a shut-up-and-multiply bro, but I’m comfortable with the general notion that we should be nicer to shrimp and other animals we eat, even the ones that don’t make good PETA glamour shots.

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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-07-01 23:05

edit: Nevermind… The Epstein Hysteria That is pretty bad… all the standard rationalist thick-headed idiocy and quibbling details and choice of gross example. But even so if that is their worst, they still aren’t in the worst quartile of rationalist.

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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-07-02 03:18

edit: Nevermind… The Epstein Hysteria Double ducked, what a rollercoaster. (I thought you made a good point before that).

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