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Help Vampires

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:39:00 No. 4820 [Preview] [Reply]

Why is the tumblr rationalist community filled with "help vampires", people who suck up immense amounts of time and effort from people with actual skills without offering any real value in return?
http://www.skidmore.edu/&#126;pdwyer/e/eoc/help&#95;vampire.htm
like, just off the top of my head: 
Ozy
Olivia Schaefer
"thebiggerfish" aka Sylvia
Act/Accalia

How do we stop this menace and either force them to improve or oust them from spaces where they can continue to hurt people/waste the rest of our time?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:40:00 No. 4823 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4820/
> people who suck up immense amounts of time and effort from people with actual skills without offering any real value in return?
I thought rationality was about winning :^)
what's the story with the latter 3? I don't use tumblr

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:43:00 No. 4835 [Preview] [Reply]

Wouldn't gender radio alone be sufficient explanation for this phenomenon?  Any woman in the ratsphere performing helplessness is assured a horde of lonely men ready to dote upon her.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:43:00 No. 4836 [Preview] [Reply]

They're utilitarians, and despite their claims they still haven't cracked the utility monster/utility pit issues. This is evident in their preoccupation with effective altruism (actually just pouring money into a bottomless pit)

What attention does ozy suck up besides the odd dick? Who are the rest of these people?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:44:00 No. 4837 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4836/
Yeah, this is just a bunch of literally whos and Ozy, who's pretty cool. OP's rhetoric is weak.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:55:00 No. 4876 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4837/
> and Ozy, who's pretty cool.
When has Ozy ever been anything else than a shitty attention whore?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:56:00 No. 4880 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4876/
How much money must one spend on bed nets to buy ozy for a night? Taking bets.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:57:00 No. 4885 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4880/
I guess the question is whether saving a child from malaria is worth the awkwardness, discomfort, and assorted health risks of having sex with you. You gotta weigh those utils and come to a rational conclusion.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:57:00 No. 4886 [Preview] [Reply]

>  post on /ratanon/
>  complain about people who don't offer real value and waste our time

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:58:00 No. 4887 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4886/
*picks two*

Anonymous

8/13/2019 02:58:00 No. 4888 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4886/
yes we all despise you and your shitposting

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:01:00 No. 4898 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4885/
It's basic utilitarianism that there's some number where it's the case, I'm just curious what that number is. Due to ozy's character, I doubt it's that high.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:41:00 No. 5016 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/4880/
Why do I find this so hot :(

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:41:00 No. 5017 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5016/
Go away Ozy

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:44:00 No. 5027 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5016/
Because you are a degenerate. It's not a real offer, you know?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:50:00 No. 5049 [Preview] [Reply]

seeing this thread degenerate into you horny morons speculating about how to fuck them makes it much less mysterious how these people suck up everyone's time

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:50:00 No. 5050 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5049/
See, this is why so many of us want to be cute girls.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:50:00 No. 5051 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5049/
it's probably like this in any community with strongly skewed sex ratio? Heard from a guy who served on a ship that even the ugliest women start becoming very beautiful after a while if they are the only one around.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:52:00 No. 5060 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5051/
Does it happen in groups that skew female?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:53:00 No. 5061 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5060/
Would be interesting to know what it's like in this city:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-chinese-city-where-men-have-three-girlfriends-because-there-are-so-many-women-10484270.html

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:53:00 No. 5062 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5061/
> Dongguan
Nominative determinism.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:54:00 No. 5064 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5062/
How aware are Chinese people of "dong" meaning penis? Does nominative determinism act across languages?

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:54:00 No. 5065 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5064/
There is a Chinese Wikipedia page about Don Juan, at least.

Anonymous

8/13/2019 03:54:00 No. 5066 [Preview] [Reply]

 >>/5065/
> Don Juan
Oh, that works a lot smoother than dong-one.

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