even Ayn Rand believed in love more than this
brb calling the burn unit
Looking forward to the conversation:
"Honey, I've met someone who fulfills the criteria we established when we started our relationship. They are 50% better than you".
"OK, let me see.... nope, I don't agree, that person is at best 25% better than me. If you leave me for them, I am suing for breach of contract."
"If I can find a girlfriend who is 10% better every year, then in 7 years I'll have a girlfriend who is twice as good as you."
"Honey, it's time we had the conversation."
"You mean, are we getting serious?"
"No."
"The 'is this going to be exclusive' talk?"
"No."
"The 'do you ever want kids someday' talk?"
"No."
"Moving in together? Making plans to meet my parents?"
"No, I need to tell you that I would trade up if I found someone 37% better than you, and now you need to tell me your corresponding percentage."
[a deadly silence falls]
oh hello there Performative Allistic Twitter
As if it wouldn't have cost you $0 not to post this.
Isn't he paying for Twitter now? He has the blue check. He could actually save money by not posting.
im more amazed that he gave himself a square emoticon. It prob has some deeper meaning for him, but it makes 'he is a square' (who wants to nuke datacenters) a bit easy, and of course, it is also just a bad way of communicating things. Which is always a bit of a surprise, how bad the 'we must teach you how to think' people are bad at basic communication.
Happy Valentine's Day everybody!
Bold of a fucking Harry Potter fanfic writer to be giving dating advice
To the extent EA/rats perpetuate cult behavior, it's probably safe to say that neither EY nor any other high status individuals within the space are wanting for sex.
does ex-FTX imperial chinese harem count?
Quoted for posterity/convenience:
in a world of greater legibility, romantic partners would have the conversation about "I'd trade up if I found somebody 10%/25%/125% better than you" in advance, and make sure they have common knowledge of the numbers
(Marriage makes sense as a promise not to do that period; but if so, you want to make sure that both partners are on the same page about that. Not everyone assumes that marriage means that.)
Her: I am never, ever letting you go unless I find someone 75% better. Me: Works for me.
oh hello there Performative Allistic Twitter
Oh look, a clarification:
It didn't even occur to me that anyone would read the tweet as being about "25% more general market value" rather than "25% more value to me personally". Who thinks like that??!?
Yud is just a uwu neuro-atypical smol bean who is ignorant of generations of cultural context about people rating each other and cannot be blamed for people reading his words in the wrong way instead of the correct, equally repellent way.
@blakestacey can't wait to hear his take on issuing derivatives for the dating market 🙄
in a world of greater legibility, romantic partners would have the conversation about “I’d trade up if I found somebody 10%/25%/125% better than you” in advance, and make sure they have common knowledge of the numbers
To be clear, that world is inceldom and they already have a term for exactly that sort of thing.
^Thanks homie 👍
Unbelievably gross 🤢 I can't even begin to imagine what kind of lunatic would treat their loved one's worth as 'just a number' or commodity to be exchanged. Frightening to think these are the folks trying to influence govt officials.
Sticking numbers next to things and calling it a day is basically the whole idea behind bayesian rationalism.
Of course I treat my life partner as a number
number one
... yes I know where the door is
“I’m sorry, I found someone with a 20000% higher PB on the original Donkey Kong cabinet, it’s over. I’m taking the kids.”
I'd never leave Donkey Kong, unless I found someone with 33.3 % (repeating of course) more funk, some sort of funky Kong if you will.
Honestly more sensible, at least it's an objectively measurable metric!
such a depressing scenario to put into words.
Yud "It's just a joke bro": The lack of punctuation makes it an obvious joke! Let me spend the rest of this thread defending the divine truth of this joke to the bitter end.
The saddest thing is that transparency is sort of good advice, but his twisted soul sees others as tools rather than people, I guess in his case transparency lets people know to stay clear.
If Yud did his cult sermons IRL:
yud walks out onto stage, wearing a hat with a 🚫 sign with a period under it
Crowd: “Leader is wearing the silly hat!!! It’s a silly sermon! Prepare to laugh!!!!”
Yud: “There should be a gulag for low IQ people and Swedes!”
Crowd: “Amazing joke, leader! We must now justify the humor!!!”
Almost 900 words to say, poorly, "It was just a joke (but not really)". The short tweets feel like they're designed for traction, but of course EY falls back on ponderous beigeness when he gets pushback.
I did this, im now single but my ex gave me a 'seeing like a state' book.
coming soon: a 16-tome series of logorrhoea as yud independently "newly discovers" the PUA-sphere, updated for a new generation of unsocialled and lost nerd
Carrie Bradshaw And The Methods Of Rationality
