i must point out that i've barely interacted with the guy, if at all, and had previously considered him on the saner end of the rationalists from his reasonably coherent twitter
nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest
Some of them are against HBD, but know being too direct and forceful and not framing everything in 8 layers of charity and good-faith assumptions isn’t acceptable on the Lesswrong or EA forums
I was actually surprised that so many EAs in the comments came straight out and said the racism was unacceptable to them.
The One Who Annoys The Shit Out Of That Kid In Omelas
the reasonable amount of money on such a non-project is closer to $0
I'm imagining someone who isn't you, but is extremely close to being you. ooWEEEEooo
downplaying the AI and longtermist elements within the movement
and this has always been an issue - they're a fucking embarrassment, but they also do a lot of the organisational work so it's hard to get rid of them
yeah, he totally did. EAs claiming otherwise are just incorrect.
remember that the original Roko's Basilisk post talked about the dilemma of being an "altruist", i.e. how to donate as much money as possible to MIRI (or SIAI as it was in 2010).
the terms were in extremely heavy use back then.
a bunch of the various Singer-inspired groups tried to work out a name for the whole thing, and they picked Yudkowsky's coinage.
it ain't just tech bros (see !techtakes for those), it's a specific strain of them associated with LessWrong
yeah, sneerclub is a sub for those who know too much about these bozos (I've been following them since 2010 good lord) to post negativity. The linked article is the easy introduction to their foolishness.
TESCREAL is becoming the accepted academic acronym - Transhumanism, Singularity, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, Longtermism - even though TREACLES was right there
Hochstein is 100% an urbit in bio guy