Will someone explain what the fuck is going on with Rationalism and Post-Rationalism and the Bay Area I thought it was just a bunch of EA Atheists with some transhumanism sprinkled in but suddenly I see tweets about Basilisks and polyamorous tech-cults and fucking egregores
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@AndrewSshi@eigenrobot@Aelkus@Sharon_Kuruvila All of you have posted about this stuff and I'm just curious because I know so little about it4 replies 0 retweets 2 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @OldDreyfusard @eigenrobot and
Was away from Twitter for most of the last day and change. I'm not the best person to talk about them because I am... not fond of them, but AIUI, it was a bunch of nerdy guys who figured they'd reduce everything to first principles, but ended up in some truly dingbat places.
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Replying to @AndrewSshi @OldDreyfusard and
plus major mop/sociopath issues guess they skipped the mop stage
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Replying to @eigenrobot @AndrewSshi and
Rationalists will do rationalist things, postrats will do postrat things, some people will pathologize one or the other. Twitter isn't representative of anything relevant here.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot and
Geek mop sociopath framework is wrong and social poison. Rationality has its issues but none of them have anything to do with what (mostly) postrat peripherals endlessly kvetch about on here.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @eigenrobot and
(I was also responding to the upthread, kinda-- Lesswrong had a minor kerfuffle about Roko's basilisk most of a decade ago. Lesswrong + Pinker led to EA. Many Bay Area LWers are poly Most LW people don't believe things were successfully reduced to first principles)
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