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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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I wasn't around but supposedly rationalists were hugely PUA-curious in the early days when entitled nerds commiserating about not getting laid were a major voice in the community, along with a bunch of other more out there incel stuff like bi-maxxing, i.e. trying to get it on with other severely undersexed dudes to scratch the itch.
A lot of it was summarily scrubbed when they started getting money and attention.
Ah yes… the ‘bi hacking’ thing that they got real quiet about…
The tantalizingly close rat forcefem universe
The fact that in the community it was widely known who heartiste is (enough for Scott to publish an anti heartiste post) makes it clear they were in pretty deep. Normal places knew about this stuff from the 'the game' book (or later somebody like rooshv). Not the neonazi pua.
e: As youtube is spying on me personally, it suggested I watch 'how one book [the game] ruined sitcoms forever'