How many rounds of IVF is the poor pregnant partner, inevitably a cis woman, meant to do? Isn’t IVF infamously fucking gruelling, requiring injections and ending in miscarriages? Is her husband going to make her feel like shit for refusing to make being pregnant her full time job? A massive amount of reproductive labour is just being taken for granted here.
And if these EAers refuse, the reproductive labour just gets passed on to other women. Grimes didn’t want to have another kid with Elon (aren’t they nonbinary? I’m sure it might have caused them dysphoria) so Elon persuaded one of his fucking employees into doing IVF and being their surrogate because it’s important for smart people to have kids. (Source)
Yeah that is silly esp as he himself wrote an article on how there are certain bands of experience you know and understand and how much there is outside of it. He is so bad at applying his own words to his own reasoning. Yeah sure the middleclass has another 300k to spare on their kids (I’m rounding the 0.5 kid up, no half kids today).
I’m hinting at the idea that he thinks that a large field off glass would improve the view. (Based on his remark in the past that he thinks people on benefits should be sterilized).
The more you learn about the sneerclub targets, the more you see this subject come back and back again. HBD keeps propping up over and over again for example.
yeah, you know those guys who talk about the prospect of artificial intelligence taking over and destroying humanity? this is them, this sub sneerclub is about them, and this is the underbelly of their wonderful beliefs
I’m just going to pretend that this thread was instead about IV breeding Pokemon. I don’t need to see a casual expression of some of humanity’s worst ideas on Reddit.
Imagining a very literal version of The Selfish Gene where I’m rejected when asking someone out only because my partner doesn’t want her child to enjoy cilantro because she thinks it tastes like soap and also thinks rolling your tongue is gross.
Yes, that’s the other Scott. Scott Alexander tries to project an air of sexual superiority, while Scott Aaronsson’s whole self-identification is that it’s a literal gift from God that he managed to find someone to marry.
I could not remember seeing Alexander talk about his sexuality, and all I recall was somebody in r/ssc complaining that we didn’t know he was anhedonic (which is weird, as I found him talk about his sexual feelings, like the poster didn’t get what asexuality means (unless he talked about this more and I missed it)). But I looked it up, and I found this:
“Applying enough charity to fully fund the Red Cross for the next fifty years, [name of neo-nazi pickupartist removed] seems to be saying something along the lines of “Polyamory is especially well-suited for asexual people”. And I agree!
Many of the people I know in successful polyamorous relationships are sexual, sometimes even highly sexual. But I also know a disproportionate number of asexual polyamorous people – including myself – and the combination seems to work really, really well.”
So yeah, his sexual superiority comes from being an ace poly person I guess (not sure where you got that from his writings, but whatever. Do wonder why he feels the need to interact with (at least intellectually) and link to people who want him to stop existing for several reasons whoever, esp as this is not really extended towards the left (and for the record I don’t want him to stop existing)).
What I should have written is that I believe Alexander is a person who wants to give the impression that sexuality doesn’t define him. His is a life of the mind, after all.
Fair enough, my effort post was more about how the anhedonic remark and how I didn’t find proof in the past (but kept it in mind) and that I found proof he talked about his asexuality btw. (I either didn’t look hard in the past or forgot I found the proof before already).
Maybe the 2 Scotts represent the 2 poles of TREACLES sexuality - on the one hand, the effortless “I’m too sexy for my shirt, all the girls want me, but I will not give in to the pleasures of the flesh”, on the other the seething resentment that hot girls are denied them. I dunno, this has led to me thinking way too much about the sex lives of 2 people I really cannot stand.[1]
[1] that said, I’m pretty sure Aaronson would at least try to be a good dad. But maybe I’m being too generous.
Same, I can seldom tell if people are talking of the SSC anagram namesake guy or the other guy, and usually don’t want to either. If it’s the Dilbert guy I can usually tell by the context. And I worry there might be one or more notable treacles with the last name Scott to make it even more confusing.
Personally, I have better things to keep track of and you probably have as well.
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