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Andrew Tate's online university hacked – Chat logs, data on 800k users leaked

58 points by _fw 2y ago

alphazard 2y ago
Love to talk to the LLM trained on that corpus.
- optimalsolver 2y ago
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- illseemyselfout 2y ago
  User: Tell me the key to manliness. TateUGPT: Your data, my choice. User: Huh? TateUGPT: Please read the EULA. Please purchase TateUCoins to become a manly redpill investor and help build the Shadow Fed.
- dijit 2y ago
  I doubt it. It would be a toxic mix of stoicism, “survival of the fittest” mentality, affirmations of harmful stereotypes (ironically; mostly harmful to the people who feel validated by hearing it) and vague notions of being a leader and working hard- Most people, especially supporters, don’t realise that Tates rhetoric is harmful to men more than women: you’re not a success unless $materialThing and $respectOfRandoms. Completely betraying the very real success of being genuinely respected and well regarded by your community and having a family that you support and love. If you took his advice seriously, you’d be very lonely.
  - ffsm8 2y ago
    They didn't realize it because it isn't true. Most of the things Andrew Tate pushes are not harmful. Stoicism isn't bad, it's massively undervalued in today's society. I'd say that most of today's modern sensibilities are the toxic influences that end up seriously harming the mental health of millennials and zoomers. It's super easy to tell: the more in touch they're with them, the less reasonable they're, the more they get hung up on irrelevant things and have outbursts about completely asinine topics. They always have to be treated with silk gloves and if someone doesn't they'll try to get them cancelled. Tate just adds silly amounts of narcissism as well, what people call "being alpha" and "sigma" right now. And that obviously ends up harming other people.
    - mcphage 2y ago
      > the more in touch they're with them, the less reasonable they're, the more they get hung up on irrelevant things and have outbursts about completely asinine topics. That describes Andrew Tate pretty well.
      - ffsm8 2y ago
        I dont disagree. It's also true for the people he teaches. But they didn't become like that through Tate. They were already brought to that point by our society massively overvaluing things that are effectively harmful to us as productive members of society. Tate just uses this issue in this messaging, and profits from simps that believe he can solve it for them. Even though the fact they're going to a "daddy figure" as grown men to have it solved is part of the issue in the first place.
        mcphage 2y ago
        Why would they believe he can solve it for them, if he can't even solve it in himself—or that he can, but has chosen to retain them? It seems more likely that these are fairly off-putting traits, and he attracts people who naturally have those traits themselves, because they see him as successful because of them.
  - rich_sasha 2y ago
    Not contesting any of it, but what is wrong with stoicism?
    - dijit 2y ago
      Stocisim is actually the only part of the toxic blend that has real merit. Although it encourages disregarding one's emotions and feelings and people who practice classic stoicism were found to be detached from reality more often, uncertain about their relationships and likely to develop mental health issues. The mix is toxic, but it had to be at least a little paletable. Stoicism has critiques but that wasn't what I wanted to say, just that his way of thinking would lead to most men being deeply dissatisfied with their lived. A lot of what he says goes directly against the protections of your mental comfort afforded by a stoicism mindset.
      - freefaler 2y ago
        This is strangely popular, but wrong impression. If you read the origin sources (Markus Meditations or Seneca's Letters to Lucilius) it's easily deducted from there. It's not about disregarding, it's about understanding that what you feel and what you are and do are two distinct entities. Stoics view emotions as a two-stage process: the involuntary experience (natural emotional reactions) and conscious rationalization (examining and responding to emotions thoughtfully). The initial mental impression (phantasia) is an inevitable component of human responses. The point of Stoic training is not to achieve disregarding emotions, but to focus on how one reacts to them, specifically whether one reacts automatically to them. It's the opposite of disregard, because they merit a very close inspection and when possible a reasoned reaction. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is build on these principles and many studies (and meta studies) prove these principles work to improve many disorders: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/
Spivak 2y ago
> Maybe it’s just the MSM, but I am starting to fear for my own safety and the future of the USA. Shootings every day, LGBTQ agenda, the matrix, I live in a very good area with a very good home life but I am sick of all this garbage happening here. I can't even eyeroll hard enough to this take. The gay agenda is overpriced brunch, the anti-lgbt agenda is "elimination from public life." How much do you hear about women's suffrage? None, because it became a non-issue as soon as we got it. If we hadn't I would still be in the streets not shutting up about it. It's the same with LGBT rights, you will only hear about it as long as it's actively being opposed. It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it.
- brailsafe 2y ago
  > It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it. ...is that not part of the point?
- rsoto2 2y ago
  We're barreling towards ww3 with a cabinet that believes the destruction of the middle east will lead to the second coming of christ, but the problem is what bathrooms should we force people to use?
  - _fw 2y ago
    Next you’ll tell me that the bathroom in your OWN HOUSE is gender neutral
    - wannacboatmovie 2y ago
      You haven't installed a urinal in your garage yet?
  - dgfitz 2y ago
    People are generally very anxious when using public bathrooms [1] so much so that they don't if they can help it. If you think about it, we grow up pooping privately our whole lives, and now the public gets to hear us toot and fart and shit. And now the woman, and I mean this, if she thinks she is a woman that's dope, has a penis in the stall next to me? I can understand it, I fucking hate pooping in public. And I'm a dude. [1]https://studyfinds.org/holding-it-in-public-bathroom/#:~:text=A%20new%20survey%20of%202%2C000,to%2065%20percent%20of%20women https://studyfinds.org/holding-it-in-public-bathroom/#:~:tex....
htatche 2y ago
What's this guy's name doing on HN?
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- BobaFloutist 2y ago
  >Online University Hacked
- slater 2y ago
  Wouldn't surprise me if a sizeable amount of the Dunning-Kruger'd computer toucher crowd are into that guy's uhh... "wisdom"
- downvotetruth 2y ago
  Andy likes to share when he gets Pene Tated.
snvzz 2y ago
We really should avoid using referring to nefarious criminal acts as hacks.
- StimDeck 2y ago
  Hacks get hacked?
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prvc 2y ago
There appears to be no purpose to this article other than to publicize and to attempt to launder the dox. I wonder to what extent this exposes "The Daily Dot" to criminal liability.
- danpalmer 2y ago
  There doesn't seem to be any doxxing in this article, in fact private details were shared with the journalists and they have only used them to confirm the hack and not published them. That seems like exactly what journalists are supposed to do?
  - crtasm 2y ago
    The final paragraph links and arguably promotes a site which is hosting the data.
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thinky_thoughts 2y ago
I feel like "university" should be in quotes here

58 points by _fw 2y ago

alphazard 2y ago

Love to talk to the LLM trained on that corpus.

optimalsolver 2y ago
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illseemyselfout 2y ago
User: Tell me the key to manliness. TateUGPT: Your data, my choice. User: Huh? TateUGPT: Please read the EULA. Please purchase TateUCoins to become a manly redpill investor and help build the Shadow Fed.
dijit 2y ago
I doubt it. It would be a toxic mix of stoicism, “survival of the fittest” mentality, affirmations of harmful stereotypes (ironically; mostly harmful to the people who feel validated by hearing it) and vague notions of being a leader and working hard- Most people, especially supporters, don’t realise that Tates rhetoric is harmful to men more than women: you’re not a success unless $materialThing and $respectOfRandoms. Completely betraying the very real success of being genuinely respected and well regarded by your community and having a family that you support and love. If you took his advice seriously, you’d be very lonely.
- ffsm8 2y ago
  They didn't realize it because it isn't true. Most of the things Andrew Tate pushes are not harmful. Stoicism isn't bad, it's massively undervalued in today's society. I'd say that most of today's modern sensibilities are the toxic influences that end up seriously harming the mental health of millennials and zoomers. It's super easy to tell: the more in touch they're with them, the less reasonable they're, the more they get hung up on irrelevant things and have outbursts about completely asinine topics. They always have to be treated with silk gloves and if someone doesn't they'll try to get them cancelled. Tate just adds silly amounts of narcissism as well, what people call "being alpha" and "sigma" right now. And that obviously ends up harming other people.
  - mcphage 2y ago
    > the more in touch they're with them, the less reasonable they're, the more they get hung up on irrelevant things and have outbursts about completely asinine topics. That describes Andrew Tate pretty well.
    - ffsm8 2y ago
      I dont disagree. It's also true for the people he teaches. But they didn't become like that through Tate. They were already brought to that point by our society massively overvaluing things that are effectively harmful to us as productive members of society. Tate just uses this issue in this messaging, and profits from simps that believe he can solve it for them. Even though the fact they're going to a "daddy figure" as grown men to have it solved is part of the issue in the first place.
      - mcphage 2y ago
        Why would they believe he can solve it for them, if he can't even solve it in himself—or that he can, but has chosen to retain them? It seems more likely that these are fairly off-putting traits, and he attracts people who naturally have those traits themselves, because they see him as successful because of them.
- rich_sasha 2y ago
  Not contesting any of it, but what is wrong with stoicism?
  - dijit 2y ago
    Stocisim is actually the only part of the toxic blend that has real merit. Although it encourages disregarding one's emotions and feelings and people who practice classic stoicism were found to be detached from reality more often, uncertain about their relationships and likely to develop mental health issues. The mix is toxic, but it had to be at least a little paletable. Stoicism has critiques but that wasn't what I wanted to say, just that his way of thinking would lead to most men being deeply dissatisfied with their lived. A lot of what he says goes directly against the protections of your mental comfort afforded by a stoicism mindset.
    - freefaler 2y ago
      This is strangely popular, but wrong impression. If you read the origin sources (Markus Meditations or Seneca's Letters to Lucilius) it's easily deducted from there. It's not about disregarding, it's about understanding that what you feel and what you are and do are two distinct entities. Stoics view emotions as a two-stage process: the involuntary experience (natural emotional reactions) and conscious rationalization (examining and responding to emotions thoughtfully). The initial mental impression (phantasia) is an inevitable component of human responses. The point of Stoic training is not to achieve disregarding emotions, but to focus on how one reacts to them, specifically whether one reacts automatically to them. It's the opposite of disregard, because they merit a very close inspection and when possible a reasoned reaction. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is build on these principles and many studies (and meta studies) prove these principles work to improve many disorders: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/

Spivak 2y ago

> Maybe it’s just the MSM, but I am starting to fear for my own safety and the future of the USA. Shootings every day, LGBTQ agenda, the matrix, I live in a very good area with a very good home life but I am sick of all this garbage happening here. I can't even eyeroll hard enough to this take. The gay agenda is overpriced brunch, the anti-lgbt agenda is "elimination from public life." How much do you hear about women's suffrage? None, because it became a non-issue as soon as we got it. If we hadn't I would still be in the streets not shutting up about it. It's the same with LGBT rights, you will only hear about it as long as it's actively being opposed. It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it.

brailsafe 2y ago
> It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it. ...is that not part of the point?
rsoto2 2y ago
We're barreling towards ww3 with a cabinet that believes the destruction of the middle east will lead to the second coming of christ, but the problem is what bathrooms should we force people to use?
- _fw 2y ago
  Next you’ll tell me that the bathroom in your OWN HOUSE is gender neutral
  - wannacboatmovie 2y ago
    You haven't installed a urinal in your garage yet?
- dgfitz 2y ago
  People are generally very anxious when using public bathrooms [1] so much so that they don't if they can help it. If you think about it, we grow up pooping privately our whole lives, and now the public gets to hear us toot and fart and shit. And now the woman, and I mean this, if she thinks she is a woman that's dope, has a penis in the stall next to me? I can understand it, I fucking hate pooping in public. And I'm a dude. [1]https://studyfinds.org/holding-it-in-public-bathroom/#:~:text=A%20new%20survey%20of%202%2C000,to%2065%20percent%20of%20women https://studyfinds.org/holding-it-in-public-bathroom/#:~:tex....

htatche 2y ago

What's this guy's name doing on HN?

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BobaFloutist 2y ago
>Online University Hacked
slater 2y ago
Wouldn't surprise me if a sizeable amount of the Dunning-Kruger'd computer toucher crowd are into that guy's uhh... "wisdom"
downvotetruth 2y ago
Andy likes to share when he gets Pene Tated.

snvzz 2y ago

We really should avoid using referring to nefarious criminal acts as hacks.

StimDeck 2y ago
Hacks get hacked?

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prvc 2y ago

There appears to be no purpose to this article other than to publicize and to attempt to launder the dox. I wonder to what extent this exposes "The Daily Dot" to criminal liability.

danpalmer 2y ago
There doesn't seem to be any doxxing in this article, in fact private details were shared with the journalists and they have only used them to confirm the hack and not published them. That seems like exactly what journalists are supposed to do?
- crtasm 2y ago
  The final paragraph links and arguably promotes a site which is hosting the data.
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thinky_thoughts 2y ago

I feel like "university" should be in quotes here