https://x.com/slatestarcodex/status/1886089392961532265
I went on a walk and saw a child drowning in the river. I was going to jump in and save him, when someone reminded me that I should care about family members more than strangers. So I continued on my way and let him drown.
— Scott Alexander (@slatestarcodex) February 2, 2025
BONUS: Marc Andreessen QTs with a heatmap meme, Scott points out that facts don't care about your feelings (i.e. rightoids can't read)
Hi Marc. I know the heatmap meme, but I think the study it comes from ( https://t.co/rqK2vSX7EU ) is saying something really interestingly different from the meme version.
β Scott Alexander (@slatestarcodex) February 3, 2025
The study finds (see Figure 1) that liberals care about their friends more than conservatives do*.β¦
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What a strange yet revealing way of looking at the world
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It's true tho? Nobody has more than a given amount of resources (time, work, money, ...), and caring about someone X% is equivalent to giving them X% of your resources. If you claim something else, your "caring" is nothing more than empty words
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YOU choose to define an abstract concept like caring in concrete and narrow terms, then dismiss other interpretations as meaningless
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yes, and that is bad why?
If caring is to be valued, it has to be concrete and narrow. Otherwise it meaningless drivel.
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So what exactly is my definition "revealing" about me? That I'm not a fricking r-slur?
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For one, you believe that caring for x (say, a loved one) is the same as caring for y (say, a stranger). That they must draw from the same resources and take the same amount of resources to count as caring.
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Obviously yes, your resources. You're welcome to explain how you're gonna get 5 minutes extra to help your coworker if you're not taking it out of helping your family or yourself
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if you caring serves nothing but yourself thats fine but keep your masturbation to yourself
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The heat map was always r-slurred and misunderstood but this is pretty much the gist of it.
Libs "care" about everyone but are somehow less motivated than most churchoid rightoids I know to actually help.
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When I adopted a new kitten I instantly despised my old dog. That's how caring about things works.
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Totally! When I met my partner and spent all my free time with they, that didn't mean I loved my husband any less! Chuds are so narrow minded!
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Are you having s*x with 11 million illegal immigrants? Respec.
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I love immigrants!
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Someone tell Scott he's still crying wolf
and just spam coneheads meme at Marc
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I definitely take my moral guidance from a movement filled with
s furstrags and libertarians, as well as the occasional murder cultist.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/californias-sorta-rationalist-death-cult-144736988.html
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Chudbuds do NOT get to dig on people for ideological bedmates lmao !nonchuds
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But they do get to?
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Still better than skinhead nazi worshippers, roach-infested incel neets, and physiognomy-reviving tatebro goblins
!nonchuds
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I thought you were pro incel?
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I definitely take my moral guidance from a terrestrian life form that includes pol pot.
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Why would you say that?
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Our boy
@TracingWoodgrains is using his superpower of reading thousands of pages of rationalist 
slop without falling asleep to argue with Scotty:
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It's a shame that second tweet is such a longpost. Marc Andreesen is a special combination of r-slurred and evil, and the
fricking flays him. It's just too wordy (like all rationalist missives).
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The dumb analogy misses the point.
Trying to save a drowning adult would be dangerous to Scott, like a 5% or so risk that both would die. In that case the moral pie calculation can go either way depending on how much you love strangers in comparison to yourself. But a boy isn't going to pull him underwater, there is no moral trade off to make.
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Man that is such a shitty plot lmao
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/slatestarcodex/status/1886089392961532265:
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https://t.co/rqK2vSX7EU:
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February 3, 2025:
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