It's kind of worrying how agitated this makes me. I guess I have my little communities I want to *protect*, by keeping them small & original. And I'm conflating several things: legitimacy and simulacrum levels and getting-shit-done-ness and cohesion and…
But that tweet evoked in me a strong sensation of *disgust*, that if the hot women join it will all be about intrasexual competition *again*, and if you're doing something important, your goal is to become legitimate. I don't like this at all.
because that's exactly also the moment the psychopaths start joining: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
and it's also the moment you shed the last bit of simulacrum 1 you had: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-levels
@owl
In fact, cathedral is an adjective, the noun is cathedron, plural cathedra
Cathechoron, cathechora, cathetope, cathetopes...
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].