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Looking at his tweets he looks like a perfect example of a smug “TPOT” postrationalist that identifies themselves as “gray tribe” and then mainlines figures lik

Looking at his tweets he looks like a perfect example of a smug “TPOT” postrationalist that identifies themselves as “gray tribe” and then mainlines figures like Bret and Eric Weinstein and has retrograde views. Thinking he’s smarter than the rest of us is most likely a big part of his identity.

hnbad 2y ago
He's definitely fitting the cliché of "STEM graduate who thinks they have all the answers to social problems without reading any previous works on the subject". E.g. he thinks Japan's cultural problems are a bigger issue than its birth rate itself (correct) but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect). He clearly takes inspiration from the Unabomber Manifesto but seems to focus on the primitivism instead of trying to understand the underlying social dynamics and power structures (which you might expect if he were a "leftist" as many initially assumed). You can take a person out of his ivy league STEM background but you can't take the ivy league STEM background out of a person, or something.
- rjh29 2y ago
  I hope he's not right about Japan because since covid I talk to even less people. Restaurants have automated not just ordering, but reservations and payment too now.
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    Of course he's right. The influence of conveyor belt sushi specifically seems very dubious (isn't it just an unusual novelty?) but any social trend that has people meeting and talking to others less frequently will have people meeting potential partners less frequently. What is the advice always given to people looking for a partner? Go out and meet people. Meet as many people as you can to increase your odds. Any aspect of Japanese society that reinforces or facilitates social isolation has a share of the blame for their demographic problem.
    - HPsquared 2y ago
      Surely the issue in Japan (and the West, tbh) is that people don't actually WANT to meet each other.
      - gyomu 2y ago
        Well, this is the defining trend of our technological progress. People getting what they want makes them unhappy in the long, multigenerational term. We innovate because we like being comfortable. We don’t want to tend to a fire constantly to be warm. We don’t want to depend on the randomness of hunting/foraging to have a full belly. We don’t want to take days and days of travel to go a few towns over. We don’t want to have to deal with people we don’t know because that’s anxiety inducing. So we invent all those things that means many modern humans can just stay comfy, warm and fed at home with all their basic needs met without having to go through all this discomfort. The problem now is that we’re all unhealthy, lonely, feel purposeless (and to top it all the planet is on fire).
        goatlover 2y ago
        > The problem now is that we’re all unhealthy, lonely, feel purposeless (and to top it all the planet is on fire). None of that is true. You're projecting what some people struggle with onto everyone, when the data indicates people are better off today. And mental health issues aren't unique to the industrialized world. Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration.
        HPsquared 2y ago
        There is plenty of data saying the average person is more unhealthy, lonely and unhappy than 50 years ago, at least in the developed world.
        computerthings 2y ago
        > when the data indicates people are better off today And what "data" would that be? https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-genera... https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/wha... https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy-Brief-Loneliness-Especially-younger-people-are-feeling-increasingly-lonely.html https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy... And what "purpose" are people looking forward to? > Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration. What does that even mean? It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Because you say so?
- mschuster91 2y ago
  > but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect) Why are you thinking he's incorrect? I mean, a debate can be had if bans are the correct tool, but there is a massive trend in hospitality in general (both restaurants and lodging) to de-personalize the entire experience, to take the human service out of the loop and make it invisible where it still needs to take place: - hotel booking? no travel agents, no phone calls, anyone can just do that themselves with bookingdotcom and other aggregator service. - hotel on-site service? no check-in at the reception, you go to a terminal, enter your booking id, get a keycard and that's it. when you check out, you close the door, dispose of the key card, and you haven't seen or interacted with any human during the entirety of your stay. - food ordering? you sit alone at home, scroll through a list of restaurants that might not even exist ("ghost kitchens"), a computer orders a human to make the food, said anonymous person (and maybe some colleagues) makes your food, another anonymous person gets ordered by a computer to deliver it to your doorstep, and if you specify a non-contact delivery you didn't have to interact with a single human for anything. And I think it won't take long for the cooks to be replaced by machines as well, delivery robots are already a thing. - on site food eating: you don't order at a server any more, you order at a terminal, a tablet or even your own phone, the computer dispatches cooks and servers, some even don't have human servers any more but only robots or running-sushi-style conveyor belts, and in the end you pay at a machine. So yes, "running sushi" is definitely a good example how human to human interactions are outright eliminated from our lives.
  - brailsafe 2y ago
    Fwiw, the conveyor belt sushi place I last went to did not feel any less personal than a typical restaurant, and did not seem to have fewer interactions with people than any place below a relatively fancy date spot
    - hnbad 2y ago
      That was my point. It's an evocative image if you don't think about it too long but if you've ever seen one it's no different from any other fast food place. Unless you're a frequent customer, you're probably not going to develop any meaningful relationships with service workers - this is especially true for chain/franchise establishments and the rare exceptions I can think of are "mom and pop" style places which have all but vanished. You go to a places operated by service workers to socialize with other patrons (especially if they accompany you there, like on a date or group event), not the staff. In many cases the staff are literally required not to have genuine human interactions with you because they're being paid to be nice to you.
- Tiktaalik 2y ago
  An Ivy League STEM background is not capable of educating him on the issues he's grappling with. Now an Ivy League Arts background might. Unfortunately there's just not enough time in the day to really dig into the issues he's grappling with when there's an overwelming course load of databases and physics etc.
Melchizedek 2y ago
This is supposed to be his ”manifesto”. https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002 https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002 Doesn’t seem to me like he has a superiority complex. He is devastated by his mother’s illness and the actions of United Healthcare.
- greenie_beans 2y ago
  i wouldn't be sharing stuff like that unless you know for sure
- andsoitis 2y ago
  I don’t know that I would trust that to be his manifesto. The BBC article says it was handwritten. Why would someone post a typed version rather than a photo of the real thing (which they would need to have to be able to type it up)?
- lkramer 2y ago
  Wasn't his family incredibly wealthy? Wouldn't they be able to pay for healthcare out of pocket?
- dwallin 2y ago
  All signs point to this being fake.
- computerthings 2y ago
  Here's the handwritten one that was found on him. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
ralfd 2y ago
TPOT?
- jazzyjackson 2y ago
  Yes, that part of Twitter, tpot. "many of those who participate were formerly part of the Rationalist and Effective Altruism movements. [...] What makes TPOT a "post-rational" community is an interest in topics that are not traditionally rationalist, such as spirituality, occultism and conspiracy theories." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat
  - voidfunc 2y ago
    Back in my day we just called these people crackpots.
ifyoubuildit 2y ago
I don't understand most of these terms, and I'm curious how much of that is me being a dummy, or just not consuming a generous amount of some very specific bubble's jargon. Edit: to clarify, when you go down the rabbit hole of certain bubbles, you come across terms that nobody will know unless they've gone down those same rabbit holes. Occasionally when you come up for air, you might find yourself using those terms as if they're broadly known.
- gpvos 2y ago
  They seem to be rather recent terms, say the last year or so. I found this just posted article helpful: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-tpot-twitter-grey-tribe-twitter-and-its-connection-to-suspected-uhc-shooter-luigi-mangione-explained https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-tpot-twit...
- rrix2 2y ago
  yeah this is person is talking about a very particular Twitter "for you" social algorithmic tarpit
liontwist 2y ago
> then mainlines figures like Bret and Eric Weinstein I’m sorry are these supposed to be extremists? These are status quo western liberals, secular humanists, and science enthusiasts. > retrograde Is this a derogatory term in the human progress narrative?
- laidoffamazon 2y ago
  Yes, they’re both very credulous.
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brokenmachine 2y ago
This reads like word salad

hnbad 2y ago

He's definitely fitting the cliché of "STEM graduate who thinks they have all the answers to social problems without reading any previous works on the subject". E.g. he thinks Japan's cultural problems are a bigger issue than its birth rate itself (correct) but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect). He clearly takes inspiration from the Unabomber Manifesto but seems to focus on the primitivism instead of trying to understand the underlying social dynamics and power structures (which you might expect if he were a "leftist" as many initially assumed). You can take a person out of his ivy league STEM background but you can't take the ivy league STEM background out of a person, or something.

rjh29 2y ago
I hope he's not right about Japan because since covid I talk to even less people. Restaurants have automated not just ordering, but reservations and payment too now.
- lupusreal 2y ago
  Of course he's right. The influence of conveyor belt sushi specifically seems very dubious (isn't it just an unusual novelty?) but any social trend that has people meeting and talking to others less frequently will have people meeting potential partners less frequently. What is the advice always given to people looking for a partner? Go out and meet people. Meet as many people as you can to increase your odds. Any aspect of Japanese society that reinforces or facilitates social isolation has a share of the blame for their demographic problem.
  - HPsquared 2y ago
    Surely the issue in Japan (and the West, tbh) is that people don't actually WANT to meet each other.
    - gyomu 2y ago
      Well, this is the defining trend of our technological progress. People getting what they want makes them unhappy in the long, multigenerational term. We innovate because we like being comfortable. We don’t want to tend to a fire constantly to be warm. We don’t want to depend on the randomness of hunting/foraging to have a full belly. We don’t want to take days and days of travel to go a few towns over. We don’t want to have to deal with people we don’t know because that’s anxiety inducing. So we invent all those things that means many modern humans can just stay comfy, warm and fed at home with all their basic needs met without having to go through all this discomfort. The problem now is that we’re all unhealthy, lonely, feel purposeless (and to top it all the planet is on fire).
      - goatlover 2y ago
        > The problem now is that we’re all unhealthy, lonely, feel purposeless (and to top it all the planet is on fire). None of that is true. You're projecting what some people struggle with onto everyone, when the data indicates people are better off today. And mental health issues aren't unique to the industrialized world. Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration.
        HPsquared 2y ago
        There is plenty of data saying the average person is more unhealthy, lonely and unhappy than 50 years ago, at least in the developed world.
        computerthings 2y ago
        > when the data indicates people are better off today And what "data" would that be? https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-genera... https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/wha... https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy-Brief-Loneliness-Especially-younger-people-are-feeling-increasingly-lonely.html https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy... And what "purpose" are people looking forward to? > Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration. What does that even mean? It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Because you say so?
mschuster91 2y ago
> but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect) Why are you thinking he's incorrect? I mean, a debate can be had if bans are the correct tool, but there is a massive trend in hospitality in general (both restaurants and lodging) to de-personalize the entire experience, to take the human service out of the loop and make it invisible where it still needs to take place: - hotel booking? no travel agents, no phone calls, anyone can just do that themselves with bookingdotcom and other aggregator service. - hotel on-site service? no check-in at the reception, you go to a terminal, enter your booking id, get a keycard and that's it. when you check out, you close the door, dispose of the key card, and you haven't seen or interacted with any human during the entirety of your stay. - food ordering? you sit alone at home, scroll through a list of restaurants that might not even exist ("ghost kitchens"), a computer orders a human to make the food, said anonymous person (and maybe some colleagues) makes your food, another anonymous person gets ordered by a computer to deliver it to your doorstep, and if you specify a non-contact delivery you didn't have to interact with a single human for anything. And I think it won't take long for the cooks to be replaced by machines as well, delivery robots are already a thing. - on site food eating: you don't order at a server any more, you order at a terminal, a tablet or even your own phone, the computer dispatches cooks and servers, some even don't have human servers any more but only robots or running-sushi-style conveyor belts, and in the end you pay at a machine. So yes, "running sushi" is definitely a good example how human to human interactions are outright eliminated from our lives.
- brailsafe 2y ago
  Fwiw, the conveyor belt sushi place I last went to did not feel any less personal than a typical restaurant, and did not seem to have fewer interactions with people than any place below a relatively fancy date spot
  - hnbad 2y ago
    That was my point. It's an evocative image if you don't think about it too long but if you've ever seen one it's no different from any other fast food place. Unless you're a frequent customer, you're probably not going to develop any meaningful relationships with service workers - this is especially true for chain/franchise establishments and the rare exceptions I can think of are "mom and pop" style places which have all but vanished. You go to a places operated by service workers to socialize with other patrons (especially if they accompany you there, like on a date or group event), not the staff. In many cases the staff are literally required not to have genuine human interactions with you because they're being paid to be nice to you.
Tiktaalik 2y ago
An Ivy League STEM background is not capable of educating him on the issues he's grappling with. Now an Ivy League Arts background might. Unfortunately there's just not enough time in the day to really dig into the issues he's grappling with when there's an overwelming course load of databases and physics etc.

Melchizedek 2y ago

This is supposed to be his ”manifesto”. https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002 https://x.com/SyeClops/status/1866353712148685002 Doesn’t seem to me like he has a superiority complex. He is devastated by his mother’s illness and the actions of United Healthcare.

greenie_beans 2y ago
i wouldn't be sharing stuff like that unless you know for sure
andsoitis 2y ago
I don’t know that I would trust that to be his manifesto. The BBC article says it was handwritten. Why would someone post a typed version rather than a photo of the real thing (which they would need to have to be able to type it up)?
lkramer 2y ago
Wasn't his family incredibly wealthy? Wouldn't they be able to pay for healthcare out of pocket?
dwallin 2y ago
All signs point to this being fake.
computerthings 2y ago
Here's the handwritten one that was found on him. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

ralfd 2y ago

TPOT?

jazzyjackson 2y ago
Yes, that part of Twitter, tpot. "many of those who participate were formerly part of the Rationalist and Effective Altruism movements. [...] What makes TPOT a "post-rational" community is an interest in topics that are not traditionally rationalist, such as spirituality, occultism and conspiracy theories." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/tpot-postrat
- voidfunc 2y ago
  Back in my day we just called these people crackpots.

ifyoubuildit 2y ago

I don't understand most of these terms, and I'm curious how much of that is me being a dummy, or just not consuming a generous amount of some very specific bubble's jargon. Edit: to clarify, when you go down the rabbit hole of certain bubbles, you come across terms that nobody will know unless they've gone down those same rabbit holes. Occasionally when you come up for air, you might find yourself using those terms as if they're broadly known.

gpvos 2y ago
They seem to be rather recent terms, say the last year or so. I found this just posted article helpful: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-tpot-twitter-grey-tribe-twitter-and-its-connection-to-suspected-uhc-shooter-luigi-mangione-explained https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-tpot-twit...
rrix2 2y ago
yeah this is person is talking about a very particular Twitter "for you" social algorithmic tarpit

liontwist 2y ago

> then mainlines figures like Bret and Eric Weinstein I’m sorry are these supposed to be extremists? These are status quo western liberals, secular humanists, and science enthusiasts. > retrograde Is this a derogatory term in the human progress narrative?

laidoffamazon 2y ago
Yes, they’re both very credulous.
- deleted 2y ago
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brokenmachine 2y ago

This reads like word salad