Michael Vassar

I don't advise it.

Quote, Artemis, "Most people's norms are bad and deserve to be disrespected and disregarded." Michael Vassar, "This doesn't get said enough.

Trying to avoid accusations of disrespectful treatment of bad norms has already taken us to the brink of the abyss.

There's still hope that we can afford to tolerate tolerance, but we absolutely can't survive by respecting asymmetry-breaking respect." Paola, "I would hate it if my child grew up thinking these norms were perfectly sane and valid, and I also would want them to know how to navigate them in order to get what they want." End quote.

Artemis: Most people's norms are bad and deserve to be disrespected and disregarded.

Michael Vassar: This doesn't get said enough.

Trying to avoid accusations of disrespectful treatment of bad norms has already taken us to the brink of the abyss.

There's still hope that we can afford to tolerate tolerance, but we absolutely can't survive by respecting symmetry breaking respect.

Eric, the only claim to immortality you have is going down as the single biggest douchebag in human history.

Michael Vassar had a, made a point to me, as he often does, which is really dangerous, and he said, "When did the world's smartest people stop caring about their own game and their own prizes, and start focusing on the prizes of the people pursuing wealth and status?" And he said, "Somehow, when scientists care about McLarens and Lamborghinis, something terrible has happened." And boy has that, like a splinter in my mind turning over, I can't get rid of it.

He's right.

Scientists don’t have Lamborghinis, you fucking tool.