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[Old Drama] Enlightened polymath threatens to break woman's arm when his credentials are challenged

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/19/gupta-on-enlightenment/#comment-621009

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I’m a remarkable person. Vast real world experience, groundbreaking work in a number of critical fields, enlightened at 26 which is pretty darn rare. Launched Ethereum, invented the hexayurt, and so on.

I don’t make a big deal of it: I am a polymath. I have real world deeds. I have a little official recognition. I’ve done a lot more than is written.

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Understand this: I am a religious authority among my own people, equal in status to a senior Rabbi or a Bishop. The Rabbi is probably a closer example. And your mate here is lecturing me because I don’t fit his stereotypical Jew. I call racism, and he doubles down on his White Right to tell an Asian expert how their culture ought to work.

Filthy little maggot.

Get this straight: I’m an expert with professional qualifications. Those qualifications are formal entitlements to practice, like medical degrees. Because you are ignorant you don’t understand these things. I have explained. Now learn.

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Dei, if you spoke to me in person this way, I would break your arm. I’m from a warrior culture. We have extracted respect from our enemies at the point of a sword for a thousand years, and are feared the world over by those who have had the misfortune to cross us.

And that’s a very practical fact: my lineage is parallel to the Gurkhas. You could think of me as a Gurkha priest.

Not Gandhian. Very not Gandhian.

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I was there for the live drama and I fricking loved it, especially after Scott Alexander went out of his way to shill for this r-slurred crypto scam just to have the codecel sperg out in full street-pooping mode in the comments (also involved: that one reddit camgirl who absolutely ruined her brain with LSD megadoses).

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Aellagirl! She continues to pop up on my Twitter feed crying about the FDA or taxes and other libertariancel things like that quite a bit. Probably worth a drama update at some point.

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Glorious - absolutely beautiful. Please people: bring me as many of the rational-sphere / SSC / Motte meltdowns as you can find. Inject it straight into my veins.

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The problem is that rationalists go for WORDSWORDSWORDSWORDSWORDS and it's tedious to extract the good stuff. Dragon Army being the best example.

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The length to stupidity ratio of the content is exactly what I love about it. They are physically incapable of writing less than a thousand words, no matter how r-slurred they or the person they are conversing with may be. It is remarkable.

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Back when I was hardcore into trolling I modeled my entire bit on the rational community and walls of text, because it is by far the most annoying form of trolling.

The people responding to you don't want to read everything you type, so they can't argue your points, so they feel flustered and respond with aggression.

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words words words about being all that

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I am the biggest opponent of eugenics in history, because I’m neurodivergent, and about a hundred or so years ago some top minds wanted to eugenics people like me out of the gene pool. So don’t you dare accuse me of any bs when I point some things I have a huge problem with


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