Dominic Cummings, the Tory fan of Bay Area "rationalists" like Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky, is absolutely the one who came up with the genocidal "herd immunity" planhttps://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1251586093478264832 …
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But yeah the rationalist clique is basically Epstein-adjacent, they're the wackjob Internet true believers orbiting around all the stuff Epstein liked to fund re: eugenics, AI and other techbro obsessions
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Oh man, that's a complicated topic that nobody's written a straightforward overview of. (My book deals with them, but I would never call it "straightforward.") The short form is there's a blogger named Eliezer Yudkowsky who is really obsessed with being reincarnated on a computer
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@peterjukes so basically@elsandifer's answer, but Cummings got it from Robin Hanson, who was also Yudkowsky's mentor, e.g. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/02/consider-controlled-infection.html … and followups - Show replies
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The person who's specifically tracking the connections between the rationalists and Cummings is
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@davidgerard but here’s the thing for anybody still reading replies to this threadhttps://irrationallyspeaking.home.blog/2019/10/22/dominics-basilisk-part-1/ … - Show replies
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