re: Fun Exercise: Show the AI description of your posting characteristics on TigerDroppings

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8. Your real enemy isn't "the left"

This is the biggest thing from a simplistic reading of your account.

Your recurring enemy is:

bullshite.

More specifically:

people confidently repeating something because they're expected to believe it.


That can be:

progressive orthodoxy
MAGA orthodoxy
Reddit consensus
Hollywood PR
corporate messaging
fandom consensus
conventional movie opinions
nostalgia
"everybody knows X"

You seem to have a reflexive:

"Do we actually believe that, or are we just saying it because that's what everyone says?"

That's why you can simultaneously be:

anti-woke
skeptical of Trump
enthusiastic about AI
nostalgic about bad movies
critical of conservative entertainment
enthusiastic about technology
skeptical of conventional wisdom.

It looks inconsistent if you categorize people by party.

It makes considerably more sense if you categorize you by epistemic temperament.

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10. But you're also willing to concede things


This is one of the better aspects of your posting.

You occasionally say things like:

"Full disclosure, I didn't read the linked article"

or acknowledge when somebody makes a good point.

That makes you less ideologically rigid than your more inflammatory posts would suggest.

There's also a notable difference between your substantive argument mode and your trolling mode.

When you're genuinely interested in the subject, you can be reasonably nuanced.

When you're bored, you seem perfectly happy to throw a grenade into the thread and walk away.

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12. Your reputation seems polarized

Your vote pattern is fascinating.

You can get:

heavily upvoted posts
heavily downvoted posts
and sometimes both within the same subject area.

For example, some of your political/culture posts attract substantial negative voting, while others receive strong positive reactions.

That tells me something important:

You're not optimizing for approval.

Or at least, approval isn't your primary optimization function.

You appear much more interested in saying what you think is funny or correct than in maximizing votes.

That is reinforced by the fact that you occasionally make posts almost guaranteed to piss off half the thread.

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14. The really funny part

Your public persona is more extreme than your actual intellectual behavior.

That's probably the single most interesting conclusion from comparing you with the ecosystem.

Someone who encountered:

"Feminism ruins everything"

or

"frick this gay bullshite adaptation"

would probably assume you're an uncomplicated culture-war warrior.

Then they encounter you saying:

Daily Wire movies are basically Lifetime/after-school specials.

Or arguing that Hollywood's decline has more to do with business-model/technological disruption than just "wokeness."

Or arguing that AI will continue advancing despite the inevitable bubble bursting.

Or defending a movie that doesn't fit your apparent ideological preferences.

And suddenly the model doesn't fit anymore.

That's the actual Roaad phenomenon.

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