Yeah, the second Jim Rutt Show we asked people to listen to was the extremist Eric Smith who claims life is an ecological property of the system and less a property of an individual :-)
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 8:59 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > [sigh] I'll never get that time back. I regret that you've now convinced > me to listen to 2 Jim Rutt episodes. I've completely forgotten what the > first one was about. And it's likely I'll forget this one, too. Rutt seems > like a gentler Joe Rogan, who facilitates the insane ranting of his guests > with so little curation as to make it useless *unless* you're *excited* by > the people talking. ("Excited" in a good or bad way.) But I suppose I > should give Rutt more of my ear time before I come to any conclusions. So > I've added it to my feed. > > Yarvin [ε] is one of the founders of the alt-right, a right wing > "intellectual" troll whose sheer (admitted) intellect encourages him (and > his hapless victims) toward the same ambiguous over-statement and > over-confidence Trump has used so well. His con-man facade is obvious if > you follow his speech/text patterns. To find the details he glosses, all > you need to do is focus on where he laughs at his own jokes and veers > hyperbolic in his claims. His uses of "fvck" and "sh¡t" are good places to > start. > > Good examples of his trolling can be found at Scott Aaronson's site: > https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167#comment-1732226 > > Credibility is about being careful in one's language and actions. Don't be > fooled by those who throw tons of spaghetti at the wall. Of course if you > throw more spaghetti, then more of your spaghetti will stick. Yarvin is, > truly, incredible. Of course, just because you can't trust a con-man does > *not* mean con-men aren't useful or that they shouldn't exist. It takes a > village. And every village needs its Jesters and gimpy shamen. > > > [ε] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment > > https://qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-underpins-both-the-alt-right-and-silicon-valley-technophiles/ > > > > On 1/17/21 7:26 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I am hoping to entrap one or more of you into listening to > https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-curtis-yarvin/ < > https://www.jimruttshow.com/currents-curtis-yarvin/> and helping me to > resolve my ambivalence about it. Yarvin seems to be some sort of a > libertarian, an attribution I make from his smug dismissiveness and his > inability to speak without making reference to bowel and sexual function in > every sentence. Also, his joy in goading us BHL’s by such assertions as, > “FDR was a much worse liar than Donald Trump.” On the other hand, his > diagnosis of the deep state and conflicts of interest that bind “experts’ > are deeply troubling to me. He seems to make an argument for authoritarian > government structures, praising the organization of the Manhattan project > with that of NSF. Thus his take on FDR is that he was not a successful > democratic leader but a skillful autocrat. He argues plausibly that the > covid pandemic was the result of a US funded program Chinese research > > program on SARS-related bat viruses when the infected ferrets there were > working on were sold to the wet-market by the person who was supposed to > euthanize them. The idea here is that the SARS program was continued, not > because it was still needed, but because of the institutional and financial > momentum provided by the US government for the Chinese Research. I would > be much more convinced by what he is saying if he didn’t take so much > pleasure in saying it. > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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