the thing most worth calling sperg disease or rationalist disease, the most harmful cognitive attractor common to the type, is profound emotional attachment to an idea of oneself as a single-agent system thickly armored in performative unemotionality of course
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Replying to @chaosprime
Like half of the sperg rationalist fiction I've read promoted IFS, and there's a central piece of theory that claims that every agent is subjunctively interdependent, and another central piece of theory that uses congresses of smaller agents to make predictions about math claims.
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Maybe. But a lot of this has been brewing for like a decade, and it's all the same people. Was there a time when you knew rationalists? Well enough to say "there's a lot of toxic individualism going on here"?
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