archive: https://archive.is/NSVXR
Oliver wrote an internal Lightcone Infrastructure memo that lists the top enemies of the Rationality movement. He saw fit to post his Enemies List to the site, because that’s a very normal thing to do.
no. 2 is a neoreactionary troll who ran a downvote bot in 2013-2014.
Emile Torres is only #3, sorry Emile some of us are just better at increasing existential risk
no. 4 is Ziz. I am officially considered worse than the literally murderous death cult.
what can i say some of us have just got it
also I trounce complete pikers like (checks notes) Peter Thiel
LessWrong used to call themselves a “phyg” in the hope that the word “cult” would not show up in Google so much as being associated with them
I was never even in to be an apostate! Mind you, Scientology used to issue public SP declares on normal people and only stopped when it didn’t go so well for them.
I think it’s also correct to claim I’ve damaged their reputation (cos it fucking deserves damage) more than Emile, who absolutely goes for the fuckin throat.
I was about to ask, in what way are you a former member of the rationality community who has invested a lot, whatever that means?
i uh posted
these people don’t understand that you don’t need to be invested in a community to dig deep into the lore; adhd, hyperfocus and sleeplessness are reasons enough.
compare me on Scientology for example
tho I slung Scn jargon well enough that I’ve had an ex member refuse to believe that I wasn’t also an ex member