RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117297068318048614

from the brutal takedowns department

@mawhrin He was always a completely full of shit enlightenment rationalist wanker and lesswrong poster type guy who hung out with Epstein's crowd, as everyone in the same field or an adjacent field who met him could attest to. It's still nice to see the mask in shards finally. He's literally the reason people still believe in the nonsense of female brains being objectively bad at math and worldly affairs or some shit, he promoted the hell out of that cherry picked study that didn't even have any national or ethnic diversity in the sample

@somebody @mawhrin wasn't aware he was specifically in with the rats

or do you just mean that kinda guy, which he is

@davidgerard @mawhrin He was pretty much one of the founders of that particular club right up there with Dawkins. The road map of laundering eugenics and far-right billionaire glazing as "enlightened rationalism" of some kind now used by the effective altruists is their invention. He was absolutely in the club from the get go. It's crazy how just about everything in this hell world revolves around these creeps https://circumstances.run/@somebody/117202823362693607

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @somebody@circumstances.run @mawhrin@circumstances.run Just want to throw in that as far as brutal takedowns go, Keira Havens had Pinker's number years ago. Her series on Medium from 2022 is here: https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-b8aec0c8710e . She gets to Pinker in part 2, but the whole series is well worth a read for the context and background. It's unfortunate the linked article does not cite her.

I don't know about rationalists but Pinker's been in with and loudly defending far-right race essentialists like Steven Sailer since at least 1999. He was part of Martin Nowak's disgraced PED institute at Harvard that was funded by Epstein (briefly posted about that here: https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1789821173.773727 ). And so on.

@somebody @davidgerard @mawhrin Al Gore, the Unabomber, and Pope Francis is an insane blunt rotation

@abucci @davidgerard @somebody oh, i know it's not the first one, and i'm well aware how shitty pinker is (i'm one of the thousands who managed to get personally blocked by him in twitter times by posting the epstein photo) – it's just that every new one brings me joy :-)

@mawhrin@circumstances.run @davidgerard@circumstances.run @somebody@circumstances.run Absolutely. I'm right there with you

One of the things I like about Havens is she makes connections with TESCREAL and other garbage views. It seems to me there's a common core to all this stuff and it smells bad.