He has a page on TV Tropes too, but it's much shorter
E: HPMoR also has a page.
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What a twat. "It's much harder to bullshit people than to be rigorous and skeptical guys. Not only is everything fine, I'm actually a better person than ALL my critics"
Yeah, that is really depressing.
I think it's a sunk cost thing for the authors, but also it could be fear of coming off as "disgruntled" to people they're hoping to communicate with. They still have hope of changing these communities, but they know these communities are very hostile and dismissive towards any criticism, especially criticism from perceived "enemies". They also don't want to lose whatever power and respect they have in those communities. So emphasising how great these groups are and how smart all the members are and how much they got out of being a member is a tactic to try and get around all that hostility. They want to flatter the remaining members enough that they'll retain their respect for them. Which in itself is a sad comment on the attitudes common in these communities.
Having said all that, the poor man is not long out of a cult and has taken a big step by publicly blowing the whistle. That takes some backbone.
I remember reading a while ago about the defunding of the authority that investigated alleged miscarriages of justice and false convictions. I guess that solves one of the problems with this 👍
Why would anyone be scared of an empty suit lol
I was at Trans and Intersex Pride in Dublin today and the last speaker took a moment to complain about AI during their speech. "These billionaires are burning the planet down with generative AI because they don't have the patience to draw a picture or write an email..."
OH WOW WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS
i'm sure this guy will have a sane, healthy and self-compassionate attitude to disability and long-term illness.
The future is so strange (I got this in my youtube suggestions)
like, try explaining this to someone from 20 years ago and they'd look at you like you were off your rocker
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Seems like Yud saw fanfiction as an arena he could advertise in and recruit from, not a community he was participating in. Hence he used all the tricks to get as many hits and reviews as possible.