I have a feeling that both Jordan “Crémieux Receuil” Lasker and Curtis Yarvin will be present as guests. https://less.online/

Yud made them list him under both Project Lawful/Planecrash and the Sequences/HPMOR. I think he is really proud of his million words of forum posts about D&D, BDSM, and eugenics, like an elderly L. Ron Hubbard really wanted to write another bestseller.

They hope to get the creator of Worm (the webcomic serial fiction that Ziz Lasota was a fan of) and Dominic Cummings. Also some postrationalists like The Last Psychiatrist and Meaningness.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If I were invited to this conference, I would have an intense “your approval fills me with shame” moment.

    • CinnasVerses@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It looks like the guests are mostly LW/EA/postrationalist bloggers, Bay Area tech executives like Paul Graham, and wealthy Libertarian pundits like Tyler Cowen. They are trying to recruit some general geeky figures:

      • Bret Devereaux of ACOUP (shows no interest! I think he is serious about being a centrist Liberal who would happily shoot slavers with the 16th Maine and say his prayers afterwards)
      • Dan Luu (software developer in Vancouver, BC, not SF or Seattle, hosts a critique of HPMOR )
      • oktrends (our friends like data and have trouble with dating, and the original OK Cupid blog played with race thinking)
      • smbc
      • Tim Urban of Wait but Why, Also present at Hereticon)
      • Worm web serial
      • xkcd (really does not seem like someone who would like them)

      Does anyone spot any outsiders they are hoping to bring in?

    • CinnasVerses@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That is just life as a creator who makes meaningful amounts of money (you can’t control your fans or prevent them from misreading), but in addition, I think one purpose of these events is to corrupt people. Lobbyists host events in nice hotels with fancy catering for a reason.