For a brief time I was intimidated by her combination of pretty and smart, except that the more I looked the more I saw that being born female can really be a chance to live life on tutorial island.
For the life of me I can't see how she thinks that Eliezer Yudkowsky is an evil genius frame controller, still thinks he is the greatest thinker of the 21st century, but the main talent I think he has is that he can always see the Emperor's Clothes even if he goes to a naked people party.
"I grew up in an isolated, homeschooled environment. I’d moved up to northern Idaho in an attempt to go to college, but my parents were very “use your bootstraps” people and wouldn’t help me financially or cosign on any loans. They also made too much money for me to qualify for financial aid, so I was screwed; a few months into college I got an ominous letter and had to drop out shortly afterwards.
I’d been brought up with the expectation of being a submissive housewife – but here I was, 19 years old, no support system, education, or future, and with an unsettling cultural disconnect from everyone around me. Everyone used words I didn’t know, references to movies I hadn’t seen, attitudes drawn from music I hadn’t heard.
So I worked whatever I could. I occasionally went hungry, unable to afford food. I slept on a mattress on the floor in a large group house. I ended up working very long hours at a factory with no windows where I wore a uniform and stood on my feet all day and saw the sun only on weekends."
https://knowingless.com/2020/05/25/readjusting-to-porn/
Luckily, her intellect allowed her to figure a way out of what would usually be a tough upbringing to bounce back from. But "absurdly comfortable"??
But she openly encourages conversations that seem extremely fascistic to me. One good example I have is this tweet:
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1229230411760324609
Her Twitter is a gold mine of well-written, but ultimately half-baked ideas that lend themselves to seriously considering Nazi ideals. And I find that many of the rationalist crowd secretly encourage or at least allow discussions about Neo-Nazi ideas. This is not cool at all.
It's amazing to me to see Aella as perhaps who I could have been, had I not wholly challenged my beliefs.
I don’t know Aella, so I cannot speak to the comfortability of her existence, but I’d assume her attractiveness and circumstances and her public persona bring fairly unique challenges (eg. stalkers) that I cannot fathom.
My own hunch is that I probably lead a far more comfortable existence than her, but I’m only supposing.
She also, rather famously, created a 'Date Me' survey in which thousands (yes, thousands) of men wrote responses about why they'd be a good enough partner/provider for her. I don't know anyone else, even other beautiful women, who get to experience dating in a way that puts them on a pedestal.
Finally, she has a series about how she was able to trip acid, provided to her for free, multiple times a week, for over a year. To me, this sounds like a pretty comfortable existence. I don't doubt she gets her fair share of unsavory messages, or even the odd in-person encounter, but I would trade my life for hers in a heartbeat.
