https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experience-at-and-around-miri-and-cfar-inspired-by-zoe
I'm not gonna summarize all these WORDS WORDS WORDS, if you're neurodivergent enough to know who these guys are you're neurodivergent enough to sort through the drama yourself.
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I hadn't even really started the article (I got as far as the reference to the previous article) @my_wifes_peepee
Wow. Just wow. You can see how the narcissism forms. "The right answer." "Discovered independently."
Yeah see mind magic will frick you up.
Ask yourself this, these are people who believe that their leader is on the crux of history and anything which gets in that leader's way, by affecting his reputation, could truly be a threat to the salvation of all humanity.
This is how crazy these people are, by their own admission. Not the widespread casual SFBA Rationalist. But the people in the inner circle of the cult.
They are living in their own action drama where they're on the critical path of history. There's nothing they won't do.
tell me you've never read a psych 101 textbook without telling me you haven't read a psych 101 textbook. The power of suggestion is extremely strong in human beings. Hypnosis is real enough.
THEY'RE LITERALLY TRYING TO BUILD GOD THEY JUST AREN'T SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO
Godawful morons man.
AHAHAHA SEE? I TOLD YOU: THESE PEOPLE DON'T READ BOOKS BECAUSE THEIR EDUCATION HAPPENED ONLINE IN ESSAYS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO REFUSED TO GO TO COLLEGE.
IT IS TERRIFYING
GOD HAS ALLOWED THIS MONSTROSITY TO ABIDE FOR DECADES
TRULY GOD IS GREAT
WE MUST RECONSTRUCT THE APPARATUS OF THE STATE FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
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I could post a huge spergout on Newcomb's Problem, but the real answer is 'stop falling for r-slurred mind games that don't impact your life at all'.
I don't read books because they're basically longposts on paper.
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