I knew this was good stuff when the majority of HN commenters where huffily complaining about the tone.

Mosaic creator Marc Andreessen

I appreciate this deep cut.

Others in San Francisco are calling it “The Nerd Reich.”

Good one.

I Left My Blogger's Life To Become An S-Rank Rationalist Cult Leader In A Bay Area Group House

Your effortpost is appreciated.

Yeah these people have found their weird PR niche. There's nothing separating these people from other rich white Americans who can also comfortably provide for ~3 kids with good schooling and higher education. The real pronatalists are the scary Quiverful people who are a lot more numerous but are also religious fundies. There's no way the Collinses can compete with them because that subculture already believes around 90% of what they believe but are more effective at spreading their memes.

I reacted to that too, "no need to be an overt WN now that society accepts us!" but I think that's partly bravado.

For example, he loves Twitter now but Elon still hasn't given his account back...

Can launder money in multiple jurisdictions.

As a child of the 80s I recognize the feeling of doom, but in my case it was for global thermonuclear war. I vividly remember the only thing keeping the feelings of dread away was sitting in the children's section of the library, reading the Moomin books. I remember being most worried about having to eat the family dog after the bombs fell.

Looking forward to the conversation:

"Honey, I've met someone who fulfills the criteria we established when we started our relationship. They are 50% better than you".

"OK, let me see.... nope, I don't agree, that person is at best 25% better than me. If you leave me for them, I am suing for breach of contract."

TPOT stands for "this part of twitter" and is apparently a Rationalist splinter group.

No it does not make sense.

"We need to ensure the AI is aligned!"

"OK, we've trained it not to be racist"

"No not like that!"