Methinks you're focusing too much of your energy against something that is really not all that bad. If your real issue with the show is that it doesn't portray your pet group in as favorable a light that you think it deserves, it might serve your interest more to attack a target that is actually at the root of the problem. Like the ubiquity of promotion of values along the lines of "money, sex and status", with absolutely no thought given to intelligence and personal development, for example. Or internet bullying and hatefests. You know, pick your battles.
The way I understand it, the show is not aimed at the general audience (because it would leave them scratching their heads at all the various references), nor at people with a serious scientific background (because they can do better than TBBT), but rather at pop science enthusiasts, who are supposed to get group identification points from understanding the concepts being discussed, but also to laugh at the collective perceived flaws of a sort of people that they're familiar with. Kind of like self-identified Forever Alones saving pictures of the Socially Awkward Penguin internet meme, and being amused rather than embarrassed when they recognize themselves in the text. If it had been meant to get people to laugh at nerds rather than to get nerds to laugh at themselves, it would have been a different show altogether.
If you want to compare TBBT to HPMoR, to avoid any future misunderstandings I would start by saying that I don't agree that the latter really has that much artistic merit. Sure, Yudkowsky is a good writer at the micro level (sentence, paragraph) -- publishably good, even --, but at the macro level he fails more spectacularly than many more inexperienced and untalented writers. If you look at the whole story, it is a mess. He overestimates the reasonable word-count-to-fictional-time-frame ratio by about an order of magnitude, takes the story to where it would never ever take itself, does not appreciate the value of subtlety in conveying one's message through fictional devices, and generally does not seem to be able or willing to think synthetically about the story.
Moreover -- and this is what's most relevant to this discussion -- it lacks the sort of self-awareness that is needed for good comedy. Many of MoR!Harry's flaws and mistakes, other than the ones that are specifically intended to portray one's transition from "traditional rationality" to LW-style rationality (in other words, the parts of Yudkowsky's intellectual past that he himself currently rejects), come off as getting tacit (or not-so-tacit) endorsement from the author, because MoR!Harry is an author avatar for Yudkowsky, and what he doesn't see as wrong with himself, cannot see as wrong with his characters. This is something that doesn't seem to exist in TBBT and other similar works. And it is something that puts them in a category above MoR, at least on this aspect.
Finally, you say you're motivated by moral considerations, but it's at least equally likely that it's just that you see a group you identify with being portrayed in a way you don't approve of, or in which you don't see yourself, and stand up for your group's public image. You perceive the portrayal as a strawman that exists for opponents to be able to kick it down to low status, and would like a portrayal in which your group of choice is high-status. Whether it really is meant like that, that's probably more accurately judged by people without an emotional investment in their identity, and who wouldn't therefore be incentivized to make it seem worse than it actually is, to gain more debate ammo against the opponent in the form of sympathy points from bystanders. I don't mean to be less charitable than the situation asks for, but I need to explain to myself what seems to me to be an overblown response laden with emotional investment.
generally does not seem to be able or willing to think synthetically about the story.
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This is my first attempt at starting a casual conversation on LW where people don't have to worry about winning or losing points, and can just relax and have social fun together.
So, Big Bang Theory. That series got me wondering. It seems to be about "geeks", and not the basement-dwelling variety either; they're highly successful and accomplished professionals, each in their own field. One of them has been an astronaut, even. And yet, everything they ever accomplish amounts to absolutely nothing in terms of social recognition or even in terms of personal happiness. And the thing is, it doesn't even get better for their "normal" counterparts, who are just as miserable and petty.
Consider, then; how would being rationalists would affect the characters on this show? The writing of the show relies a lot on laughing at people rather than with them; would rationalist characters subvert that? And how would that rationalist outlook express itself given their personalities? (After all, notice how amazingly different from each other Yudkowsky, Hanson, and Alicorn are, just to name a few; they emphasize rather different things, and take different approaches to both truth-testing and problem-solving).
Note: this discussion does not need to be about rationalism. It can be a casual, normal discussion about the series. Relax and enjoy yourselves.
But the reason I brought up that series is that its characters are excellent examples of high intelligence hampered by immense irrationality. The apex of this is represented by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, who is, essentially, a complete fundamentalist over every single thing in his life; he applies this attitude to everything, right down to people's favorite flavor of pudding: Raj is "axiomatically wrong" to prefer tapioca, because the best pudding is chocolate. Period. This attitude makes him a far, far worse scientist than he thinks, as he refuses to even consider any criticism of his methods or results.