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Interview with gwern

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308 points synthmeat | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 08:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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mola ◴[14 Nov 24 11:48 UTC] No.42135302[source]▶
Everything I read from gwern has this misanthropic undertones. It's hard to put a finger on it exactly, but it grits me when I try reading him. It is also kinda scary that so many people are attracted to this. It rhymes with how I feel about Ayn Rand. Her individualism always seems so misanthropic, her adherants scare me
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1. herculity275 ◴[14 Nov 24 11:56 UTC] No.42135353[source]▶
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but pretty much every major 20th century intellectual had misanthropic undertones (and sometimes overtones) - people who read/think/write an exceptional amount don't tend to be super people-loving.
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2. southernplaces7 ◴[14 Nov 24 17:35 UTC] No.42138716[source]▶
That should depend on what you read. There's more than enough in the history of our species and in books about us to make someone love humanity too, at least conceptually if not in daily practice.