Does anyone here know what exactly happened to lesswrong to become so cult-y? I had never seen or heard anything about it for years, back in my day it was seen as that funny website full strange people posting weird shit about utliltarianism, nothing cult-y, just weird. The aritcle on TREACLES and this sub’s mentioning of lesswrong made me very curious about how it went from people talking out of their ass for the sheer fun of “thought experiments” to a straight-up doomsday cult?
The one time I read lesswrong was probably in 2008 or so.

  • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    I think it was 2014/15 when they decided internally that CFAR’s mission was to create more people like Yudkowsky

    the real AI doom is Eliezer cloning facility

    • @TerribleMachinesEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Truer words were never spoken, probably.

      CFAR is the mind killer (because they kill you and replace you with a Yud clone).