https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hun4EaiSQnNmB9xkd/tell-people-as-early-as-possible-it-s-not-going-to-work-out

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

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      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.

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        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