All of Aurini's Comments + Replies

That is decent of you, sir.

Nonetheless, I do not believe that this is the place for me. I support and admire your mission of raising the Rationality Waterline, but I am a man who belongs in the trenches. Best I can do is use your Dark Side teachings, and send the occasional padwan in your direction to learn the Vicious Arts.

Grant me your prayers as I fight against the insufferable Good within the world.

3RobertLumley
Sorry to see you go, even despite this thread. You were obviously making an attempt, as evidenced by your apology, and I'm sad to see anyone leave when I think there's a possibility that they can fit in with the community. For what it's worth, I hope your real plan is to make a new account that will not be associated with this post, although I doubt anyone actually remembers your username well enough to automatically associate it with this incident.

Oh, believe me, I shit the bed on this.

I was still all ornery from the last time here; I let that get into my blood, and overreacted. I've only recently attained any internet prominence, and this was my first time experiencing hate. Despite all the mental preparations... I reacted poorly.

I prefer to own my failures, however; I fucked up three weeks ago. Anyone can see that.

As I said to another commenter - I suspect that I am better as a beacon for rationality, pointing new pilgrims to his place, than I am a member of the community.

1[anonymous]
I guess I am less attached to person-continuity than most. I generally regard two or three months forward and backward in time as the limit to calling the program run by this computational architecture "me," shorter in the vicinity of major insights. Outside this timeframe I see it perfectly acceptable to blame "past me" and have obligations towards "future me."

I just apologized. F5 the page.

I was too much of an asshole; here it is in comment form.

I'm taking a 24 hour break, thom. I was over worked up, and I let it spill into this comment thread, overreacting to what people said.

I've probably acted like a jerk. not completely devoid of purpose, but a jerk nonetheless. I'd like to apologize for all of that. I had no call to be so rude to all of you.

Gah. I suppose I should repost this to the top.

4[anonymous]
I have a habit of retracting my comments once I no longer agree with my past self. You might find that a worthwhile endeavour.

Thank you for your apology. While you weren't rude to me, since I didn't get in on any of this, I had been pretty heavily downvoting you for your hostility. I was planning on looking through the thread in more detail to make sure I hadn't missed anything I thought should be downvoted, but I'm going to refrain from doing that now, and I've removed some downvotes I had made.

Delete: hopefully nobody saw that.

I'm taking a 24 hour break, thom. I was over worked up, and I let it spill into this comment thread, overreacting to what people said.

I've probably acted like a jerk. not completely devoid of purpose, but a jerk nonetheless. I'd like to apologize for all of that. I had no call to be so rude to all of youl

Gah. I suppose I should repost this to the top.

Not to worry, I've gone off the deep end too, memorably when engaging with SilasBarta when I had first started taking Adderall regularly. There's a reason we use the phrase "mind-killer" for these topics.

I have no interest in addressing your video. That is not my purpose here. I saw you making what looked like a mistake, and felt the need to point it out. I also pointed out confusing parts of your comment in hope that you could resolve the confusion.

I have no interest in insulting you or making fun of you, nor have I done so. I also have no interest in "getting laid", and I'd prefer you keep your opinions regarding my private life to yourself.

And nobody's been here longer than me.

2GLaDOS
Heh. That was actually amusing. I'm a sucker for A Song of Ice and Fire reference. (^_^)
8Multiheaded
You need to ease up.

I read unintentional sarcasm.

Your response: Appreciated. :)

I'm not a complete bastard!

GLaDOS, you are the first girl-computer to give me a bRoner.

The mind truly is the sexy organ, even for a playa like myself.

This sort of comment reinforces negative stereotypes pretty badly. There's a perception that people who self-identify as "race realists" are often simply smart versions of "bros" and have generally sexist attitudes. How much of that is due to halo effects and tribal allegiance issues isn't clear. But this sort of comment really doesn't help matters.

I may have to trust you to post the videos full of Truth

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4GLaDOS
This is cool because this started out as my RP account, but if I was posting this under my real name or different nick comments like that would be creepy. Note not everyone may get the reference so I suggest you stop. (~_^)
-2David_Gerard
In practice it tends toward a form of orientalism.

I fail at subtelty understanding.

If you read the comments on the video, it's pretty clear who I'm talking about.

6Multiheaded
WHAT? "Subtlety understanding"? You're over-reading me, I meant no more than I just said; even when I disagree with people who hold your views (alt-right, "racial realists", etc) in other regards, I've always found your line on the racial question mostly solid and decent.

I was incredibly polite on the last debate; I still got downvoted.

I've just glanced at your whole list of comments. Unless I missed a page or something, I'm not seeing you get significantly downvoted in any systematic way in past discussions.

Either way, whether you were treated rightly or wrongly in the past, right now you're just being absolutely horrible and trollish, and your current behaviour would easily cause you to deserve to get banned, not just downvoted.

Note that the argument on my video isn't the video itself - it's whether the video is appropriate or not.

It's generally considered acceptable here to comment on style and presentation, and posters generally appreciate the feedback. It's... weird, to put it lightly, that you are responding to neutral-toned feedback with hostility.

This place likes to pretend that it's counter-norm, but it parrots the university line at the drop of a hat.

I'm not sure what you mean by "counter-norm", or why this place would like to pretend it is that.

Perfec

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And given that I'm one of those incredibly evil people - what is my attitude towards blacks?

Almost seems like I give a shit about them...

I actually did this video because one of my black subscribers challenged me; I needed to take a stance. He's in complete agreement, from his comments.

2Multiheaded
Sure, sure, I believe you. I never played the racism card on any of you HBD people.
-3[anonymous]
See? You are racist against Asians, you just don't know it yet! (I'm not, I merely pointed out the racist reference.) :trollface:
0[anonymous]
(I've expanded my comment to hopefully make it more clear what I mean.)

I agree.

4Normal_Anomaly
Downvoted for excessive exaggeration of a probably false claim (that LW is too irrational to talk about race).

You filthy degenerate hypocrite.

Dude, THAT's why you're getting downvoted (I'm not doing it right now, but others do). Not because of the substance of your arguments, but because we don't address fellow members like that.

2JoachimSchipper
Something argument-ish can be found here. There is an interesting truth-seeking-vs-consequentialism discussion to be had here, but I'll just let the rest of your comment slide.

I think the leather jacket makes me look fat.

4Multiheaded
I'm not your spouse, dude.

From what I gather (as I said in the video, I am NOT a social scientist) it's based upon victims surveys; not racist cops inflating the stats, but victims reporting who committed the crime.

And given that the majority of crim is intrAracial, this is pretty definitive.

FringeElements breaks down the data rather well in "make the world flat." He does make a couple of errors, and I'm sure you could criticize him for hours... or you could check out the FBI survey I mentioned.

Ok, how do you guys do that?

30 minutes after posting I rewrote it to provide an abstract; you may not have seen that.

Well, I'm one of the last goddamned cowboys in cowtown. Why shouldn't I wear it? The motorcycle helmet isn't photogenic.

1Multiheaded
Right, right, I'm fine with your hat! (and your other clothing, and your lineage, etc) Just sharing my relative impressions, that's all!

Check out my comment history I'm an evil "racist" too. I don't get down voted though.

Oh I'm sure the downvotes for the main articles are almost entirely from newbs to the topic who are shocked SHOCKED to see this argument. And people who are thinking "this is true but I can't have this on LW main it looks bad to non-LWers!". And now that its in negative numbers people will dog pile on it (happens to most)... and that isn't so much your fault (though I guarantee you you would have had a better response in discussion).

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I needed a change of scene. Maybe I'll take my hat off every so often, I can use that to emphasize a point, right?

2Multiheaded
Oh sure. The thing is, I've only ever watched 3 or so of your videos, and in this one you were suddenly wearing one.

Perhaps I've misjudged you.

The battles over on my channel - if you ignore the white nationalists - are largely about survival of civilization, followed secondarily by the survival of the political state.

But overtop of those the debate is mainly whether we should have a state. I'm not even herding cats - I'm just talking to them.

Greatly appreciated, friend.

Is there an upvote for "written and video forms are different"?

I do both, you know; but with something as ballsy as admitting race realism, I wanted to do it face first and in speech. Technichally I broke the law in Canada by posting this video; I at least want my face showing while I do it.

4Multiheaded
(BTW, you probably look cooler with a shiny bald skull than in a hat. No, seriously, I'm not pulling your leg! At the very least it grabs attention and makes you look like someone from WH40k.)
7Multiheaded
I already upvoted your post here when I saw it dipping below zero (check my likes, made them public). If you want it that much, I'll upvote it on youtube, too. Although I really don't like the tone and direction of comments over there; they'd rather talk about political battles than the real-world policy effects on real people. WHAT local power?

Again, chill out. Nobody here engages in nonconsensual gay sex with anyone. ;)

9A1987dM
What abstract? And when did I say it was not “acceptable” to not provide a transcript?

You are the soul of charity, GLaDOS.

:blink:

And I was JUST about to say that I've read the transcript of your video and found it mostly factually solid (although making some puzzling assumptions and generalizations) and refreshingly polite! Calm down, good sir. I'm not offended by this discussion and neither should you be.

I certainly never had "contempt" for you; the absolute worst thought I allowed myself was: "Shame that this charismatic man was led somewhat astray by contrarianism and unbridled resentment of modernity."

P.S. I'm quite sure that no LW commenters would be spat on by Orwell, were they so fortunate as to meet him.

7GLaDOS
Ok now I think you might be trolling or trying to be cool and ironic. I don't like either.

I was just giving an extra data point for kilobug's remark; going off the number of upvotes I think there's a significant chunk of people who prefer video to text.

(and sheesh, if you want to talk about politically incorrect topics you're going to be a bit more thick-skinned, here you're snapping back at a preference of media as if it was a criticism)

Consider how long it would take you to write a transcript. Then consider how long it would take people to watch the video, multiplied by the number of people on LW interested in the topic. Compare the results.

To avoid repeating myself I will just say here that I've downvoted multiple replies of yours for hostility. Stating a preference for text isn't an attack on you; misrepresenting people's responses just comes off badly.

9A1987dM
I didn't expect you to, so no apologies are needed. (That was the point of the word ideally and the part after the last comma in my post.)
3Multiheaded
Um, at the risk of re-igniting passions... you replied to a link I posted, which started a rather heated argument that attracted other commenters. (Unless you remember and your question was meant as an insult.)
2A1987dM
A hostile response to a hostile response is hostile.
3katydee
I feel I was no more hostile than-- to use your argument-- someone judging a competent black doctor as incompetent thanks to their priors about affirmative action.
8GLaDOS
Don't take those kids of statements on LessWrong personally. Discourse on LessWrong can be blunt, but people generally are honest and don't play that many games. I find the trade off worth it.

Being blunt is not the same thing as being hostile, especially not if it's in response to a question.

You asked whether a description would be enough to make the post valuable to people on this site. katydee thought that it would not make it reasonable for him, and explained why. You are of course under no obligation to cater to his wishes in particular if you deem them unreasonable, just like he is under no obligation to check out your video if he doesn't consider it a worthwhile use of his time. But although he could have been a little less blunt, he never attacked you directly and merely explained his own feelings on the subject.

3Multiheaded
That's not how you reacted during our unfortunate altercation on gender relations ethics!

Video and audio (AM radio) are a very difficult forms of rhetoric; done right, it's information and entertainment. Done wrong...

Aren't you glad that I started out with EY?

Downvoted for using a hostile tone to reply to honest and reasonable feedback.

My point is simply that, were you to provide an expanded description that might provide compelling reasons to watch your video, I would be more inclined to look into it-- but a link submitted without context is extremely unlikely to get my attention.

I appreciate the clarification. :) My bad - I'm surprised to hear that that is a problem, but that is life, eh?

I rewrote the description. What do you think? I don't want you to go to all the effort of doing a transcript; I suspect it might take longer than the video itself (with all the false starts, etc). But I will not say no to it, either. Do you think it's still necessary?

2GLaDOS
Much better, it is a good summary. Perhaps drop the Obama reference (keep the discussion on race line). For some strange reason any name-drop of an American politician in a post seems to cost it 5 or 10 karma instantly (politics is the mindkiller has become a mindkiller heh (^_^) ) Oh its ok, its not really necessary. A paragraph explaining what the key argument is and perhaps links to related posts work just fine. I was just offering to PM you a raw transcript of what your said, that I would type do as I watched. BTW So far I'm linking your video. Have you considered making a discussion post that summarized and linked to some of your older videos? I think someone recommended a few from your channel in a discussion here once and it got up votes. The Atheistkult one might be edgy but I think it would actually go down well and would be very relevant to the LW crowd.
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