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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 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 mean, he was a rationalist EA who tweeted pronatalism
i saw TPOTs on Twitter going "shit I know him"
If the argument is that too much rationaltruism fried his brain then fine I guess.
Otherwise I don't think United Healthcare doing AI assisted fraud falls into any rationalist framework of doom, and also those people are allergic to direct action.
Also the article is already setting the bar very high by using the Zizians, a sect that's almost completely predicated on semi-obsure rationalist lore, as their first point of reference for rationalism gone wild.