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this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Ugh. Does it worry anyone else how much this fraudulent/incompetent way of claiming to be scientific resembles nazis and race science at their most fundamental workings?
Imagine the disappointment the rats must have felt when watching "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and wondering why all their heroes are getting their faces melted off.
A lot of rationalists (again including Yudkowsky) endorse eugenics so that’s probably not a coincidence
Saying a lot of rationalists endorse eugenics is a bit like saying a lot of Nazis endorse white supremacy.
Rationalism (the online subculture, not the older philosophical meaning of the term) is a subculture predicated on a notion of "general intelligence" which is reified ableism and therefore, necessarily, entails eugenics.
it's just another fash-adjacent subculture