The #tech sector and the elite #programming and #computing culture are boiling over with nerdbros who babble about "debate" and "logic" and "rationality" while--exactly like E. Z. Yudkowsky--preferring the monologue as their method of discourse. They're isolated, insular, frankly very *lonely* people who out of psychological necessity have convinced themselves that they ought to be able to reason out the nature of reality without leaving their computer desk.
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