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Strange, on the McAfee thread people where bathing in hate for the guy and I kinda respected his crazy life. This guy, being my conational that I never heard o

Strange, on the McAfee thread people where bathing in hate for the guy and I kinda respected his crazy life. This guy, being my conational that I never heard of, I got into a bit of digging and discovered a really creepy couple of blogs of women with CS PhDs that talk about him like some kind of cult leader and at the same time apparently the man regularly had 4chan level public discourse. What's up with that? Does anyone have info on this? Maybe the blog authors could even clear it up in this thread! But instead the thread gets buried because speaking of the dead (that did not lead a publicly known degenerate lifestyle apparently) is frowned upon. News of death can be a good trigger to uncover knowledge. Choosing ignorance and shutting down speech because of cultural afterlife superstitions is not productive.

lmilcin 5y ago
Somebody went to the trouble of creating a completely new throwaway account just to drop a bunch of insults. That's not "uncovering knowledge".
- pennaMan 5y ago
  so we'll just sweep the CS PhDs sex(?)(sex prose?) cult under the rug because grandparent wanted anonymity and was a bit harsh in expressing reality? What should be brought up is why does GP have such strong feelings towards the guy? And why does he have this strange following? http://web.archive.org/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.com/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://web.archive.org/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.... http://ossasepia.com/2021/06/24/severed http://ossasepia.com/2021/06/24/severed
  - lmilcin 5y ago
    No, we will sweep it because insulting dead is not strictly within HN guidelines. There are better places if your aim is to just insult other people, alive or dead.
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s5300 5y ago
Yeah, I'm going to get downvoted to shit for this and maybe even banned. This dude was pure human scum. Straight up shit of the Earth. McAfee was actually a pretty fun eccentric to watch & wasn't an utterly terrible person by any real measure of the meaning.
- Proven 5y ago
  I won't challenge that assessment, but both of them seemed to favor a system of minimal government in which neither could bother you. Compare that to the much more benign-sounding "community organizers" and various other busybodies working to get to a government position which would give them enough power to wreck your life. Even for me, it's hard to feel as strongly about them as about MP, but they are in fact worse.

lmilcin 5y ago

Somebody went to the trouble of creating a completely new throwaway account just to drop a bunch of insults. That's not "uncovering knowledge".

pennaMan 5y ago
so we'll just sweep the CS PhDs sex(?)(sex prose?) cult under the rug because grandparent wanted anonymity and was a bit harsh in expressing reality? What should be brought up is why does GP have such strong feelings towards the guy? And why does he have this strange following? http://web.archive.org/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.com/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.com/2014/patriarchy-is-a-thing-because-nobody-likes-living-in-a-world-populated-by-little-girls/ http://web.archive.org/web/20200922180636if_/http://trilema.... http://ossasepia.com/2021/06/24/severed http://ossasepia.com/2021/06/24/severed
- lmilcin 5y ago
  No, we will sweep it because insulting dead is not strictly within HN guidelines. There are better places if your aim is to just insult other people, alive or dead.
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s5300 5y ago

Yeah, I'm going to get downvoted to shit for this and maybe even banned. This dude was pure human scum. Straight up shit of the Earth. McAfee was actually a pretty fun eccentric to watch & wasn't an utterly terrible person by any real measure of the meaning.

Proven 5y ago
I won't challenge that assessment, but both of them seemed to favor a system of minimal government in which neither could bother you. Compare that to the much more benign-sounding "community organizers" and various other busybodies working to get to a government position which would give them enough power to wreck your life. Even for me, it's hard to feel as strongly about them as about MP, but they are in fact worse.