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 @AndrewSshi and
thats not what i mean and/or i dont understand what you just wrote
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I think the GMS framework is actively social poison.
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