this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
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I’m a Vermonter and this shit is so insane. I wanna know what the people caught up in shooting the vermont border patrol agent were up to. What were they planning on doing in VT? Why were they armed to the teeth? Why did they have surgical equipment? What is the nature of their ties to Peter fucking Thiel?
I can’t quite comprehend what it is they even believe in. When I read that this cult had ties to Peter Thiel all my alarm bells in my head went off. He’s arguably one of the most powerful and dangerous men in America.
Technically he doesn't have connections to Thiel directly. They have connections to the lesswrong Rationalists (note, rationalwiki is not associated with the lesswrong Rationalists, and they don't like each other, this place is also on team rationalwiki). However enough Rationalists are (or are friends with) neoreactionaries (for a long time LW was one of the few places where they were sometimes welcome, or even talked about). But this is one of the places where (through heavy layers of snark and derision) you could learn about these groups.
However, as the lore is deep, very annoying, quite bad (A lot of IQ-anon type people), I suggest you don't start reading up on this. Ignorance once lost cannot be regained (There are also some very small (small as on low risk, but if you are one of the rare people high effect) mental health risks if you believe very specific things about skynet style AI and a few other silly beliefs). And you already got the important parts (Thiel and people close to him suck).
I think I lost some brain cells reading those links and I couldn’t even fully read them without closing the tab out of irritation lol.
What the actual fuck do these people believe????
If I had to summarize it, they believe in scifi handwaves and have taken them far beyond mere logical conclusions.