For those of you who don't know, certain portions of LessWrong are DEEPLY immersed in the fictions of the World of Darkness. Alyssa Vance, for example, gives a copy of the Mage: the Ascension core (either revised or 2e) pride of place on her bookshelves.
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(She did when I knew her, anyway, she's since moved to the west coast to ... presumably get away from all of the unwashed plebes invading Manhattan)
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Anyway, like most internet-based cults, LessWrong latched onto a fiction and ran with it, grossly misinterpreting it to suit their own ends. Michael, for example, insisted he was a Hollow One born to reform the Technocracy.https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Hollow_Ones …
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Weirdly, everyone I met in LessWrong insisted they were a member of the Traditions, NOT the Technocracy (too fuddy-duddy for them? too many rules? didn't like the focus on consensual reality? idk) and that Nephandi didn't exist. (If you ever wonder why I love Nephandi...)
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Andrew Rettek was one of the few members of LessWrong who decided he was a vampire (an! elder! malkavian! in! golconda!) instead of a mage and I should have listened when he said that BUT this story is not about him. This story is about Scott Siskind.
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See, initially, everyone I met in LessWrong (including Michael) insisted I was a Sleeper or a human without magic and I should let them Awaken me (probably through sex or lectures or whatever). It took a certain amount of badgering and repeating myself buuut...
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Eventually they grudgingly acknowledged that in their oWoD fiction-view of the universe, I was a Sidhe Changeling.https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Sidhe_(CTD) …
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Fine, all well and good. They decided this meant I was a manic pixie dream girl and they could keep me around because I was hot and exciting and fun and emotional. Whatever. Michael, however, had further questions for me.
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Did I know Scott? Well, no, not a the time. Michael was shocked. Scott Siskind, he told me (and he used Scooter's real name, not this Scott Alexander nonsense) was the single most influential blogger he'd ever met, and I should know about him.
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Why? I asked. Because he's an autumn person, Michael said, matter-of-factly (for him). He's lost sight of all the good and magic in the world and he's trying to find others who agree with him.https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Autumn_People …
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Ha, I'm the only person I know who identified with the C:tD Dauntain and wanted to play as one (I do think the Dauntain were in many ways proto-Changeling: the Lost characters)
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Replying to @RuffleJax
The metaphor of being a cult survivor who now seeks to destroy the cult by the means they fear most, exposing them to the real world, is really powerful
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