IF YOU ARE ILLEGITIMATE, STAY ILLEGITIMATE

because that's exactly also the moment the psychopaths start joining: meaningness.com/geeks-mops-soc

and it's also the moment you shed the last bit of simulacrum 1 you had: lesswrong.com/tag/simulacrum-l

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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.

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