Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by spopejoy on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:14PM
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You might have just explained the phenomenon of AI doomsayers overlapping with ea/rat types, which I otherwise found inexplicable. EA/Rs seem kind of appalingly positivist otherwise.
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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?
by danaris on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:51AM
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I mean, that's also because of their mutual association with Eliezer Yudkowski, who is (AIUI) a believer in the Singularity, as well as being one of the main wellsprings of "Rationalist" philosophy.