RPM? Like how fast you can spin?

Fuck yeah I’m a finnish DF genius

Janelle was gracious enough to put her on Pynk as well!

ah, yes, I forgot to put in a second footnote about my neighbour Brian. We'd call the cops but it turns out he's the local sheriff.

The article image is defs AI generated, and the giveaway is of course *drumroll* the fucking hands

also the caption feels wrong. guy on the right looks nothing like musk, it was probably thiel in the prompt.

:/

I am not much of a Reddit muckraker. I checked out the posts from the mods I didn't recognise. The longtime mod Son_of_Sophroniscus appears to now be alt-right? Other than that, I still can't make heads or tails of any of it.

Twice the sneer, double the… club?

Could it be that Yud read about Bombadil, thought, “man it’s a good thing this dude is with the good guys, or middle earth would be screwed” and then decided to spin that into a technocult about AI?

There's a fine line between "no kinkshaming" and Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance

prefacing this with IANALCUM (i am not a legit cult understanding mechanism)

I imagine it has been a cult from the start, or at least the primordial soup of factors before any of this hit the internet in earnest had all the right ingredients for a cult:

• A leader claiming to have nigh omnipotence, and some version of high charisma amongst potential followers (Yud, who despite everything, is charismatic within the confines of the ratsphere)
• A framework of lore (in this case rationalism) in which recruits are to be indoctrinated and taught how to think
• An upwards power structure in said lore that concentrates authority at the apex of the heirarchy (iq as intelligence metric, blindly doing what higher iq people say)
• Purity tests that create a positive feedback cycle that reinforces adherence to doctrine (either you believe yud about many worlds/AGI/whatever and are on the road to smartness, or you don’t and you will be cast out of the ratsphere)

I mean the list goes on. As to when it became culty? To use a trusty thought experiment, it’s the paradox of the heap.

As the originator of this comment chain I’m gonna count this as a coup.

I may have accidentally steelmanned robots building robots (pitching RBR for short) in my head picturing those robot arms they have in car factories.