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Spugpow

@Spugpow

Oct 13, 2021

This article has caused me to update strongly towards

@glenweyl

's (former?) stance that Rationality and adjacent subcultures are dangerous

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Zoe

@CurziRose

Oct 12, 2021

Haven't been on here much lately-- I've been working on something very important to me. It's a piece about my experiences at Leverage Research for 2.5 years. I think it contains some really important elements for others to know. Read it here: medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-e

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I've been deep in rat community for years and have seen a few cults around it; I think the rat culture attracts people uniquely susceptible to stuff like this, and given that it's quite impressive that none of the core rationality stuff has gone off the rails.

4:52 AM · Oct 13, 2021

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Can you really be confident of that given that a lot of these groups seem to operate in secret

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they weren't in secret. they were secretive, but everyone in my community knew about them. Same for the other cult groups.

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as in, if you get a bunch of cult susceptible ppl (I'm including myself in this category) in one area, its not surprising if some unhealthy subgroups form. but I'd argue they formed away from core ideals of the rat community itself, and core rat groups stayed good