Man I'm glad I got bored by LW stuff before it broke my brain more than it did. There's so much stuff online written people who just got wrecked by that/EA/other transhumanism adjacent stuff that's too easy to see an alt version of myself in
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Totally fair question! I should disclaim that I'm also glad I spent time with rationalist/LW-style stuff for awhile; I still believe in EA, and parts of the online rationalist project/sphere/social graph have interesting & valuable things to say. That said-
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For some people it gets mindbreaky, especially people who genuinely believe the singularity is nigh and that a god AI is right around the corner. (See Roko's Basilisk and its attendant fallout - people genuinely unable to function out of anxiety about it)-
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