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 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