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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago

I have an ATProto login and am skimming the threads before I have to go and do other stuff for a few hours. I came across a link to this podcast, which looks interesting. The transcript of the first episode (I'm more of a reader than a listener) barely gets going before (content warning for sexual assault by intoxication) this:

E: ... right after I graduated from undergrad, I went on a date in San Francisco with a Harvey Mudd alum who revealed to me over the course of the date, which is at like a fancy prohibition style whiskey bar. That part was cool. You had to make a reservation. So I thought that was, I was like, that's a good sign. That's really that's cool of him. He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality. And I said, Oh, well, I don't want to brag, but I've written a pretty highly acclaimed The Dark Knight Rises fanfic, and he broke in and said, It's not a fanfic.

A: Were they saying their musical wasn't a fanfic, or that rationality wasn't a fanfic?

E: The musical was not a fanfic. And I didn't know what to say to that. [...] And then he also, this is the guy who he tried to get me drunk when I didn't want to. Uh, super rational. Very rational. Yeah, rational. I want to have sex with this girl and she doesn't want to have sex with me. The rational thing to do is to change one of those conditions, and I can't not want to have sex with her. Um, and told me that he did not ask his female friends for dating advice because if you're a hunter, you ask a hunter and not a deer. These were the same guys. He was the same guy.

[-] zogwarg@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago

you ask a hunter and not a deer.

The sad lens into their prevalent relationship with "correcting biases" being more about dominance in "trickery" rather than becoming better people. (and also entrenched misogyny.)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Yep. Cf. the pervasive idea that the true fundamental purpose of intelligence is casting Persuasion spells.

[-] lurker@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

He revealed that he and his friend had written a musical based on Harry Potter and the methods of rationality.

Dear God

[-] maol@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One of the members of a "wizard rock" band later went on to be in an actually good band. But as far as I am aware, this has only happened once.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

I will have you know that fartwave is a legitimate musical genre. The normies might not be ready for a full-length, full-production stage musical, BUT

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