archive: https://archive.is/NSVXR
Oliver wrote an internal Lightcone Infrastructure memo that lists the top enemies of the Rationality movement. He saw fit to post his Enemies List to the site, because that’s a very normal thing to do.
no. 2 is a neoreactionary troll who ran a downvote bot in 2013-2014.
Emile Torres is only #3, sorry Emile some of us are just better at increasing existential risk
no. 4 is Ziz. I am officially considered worse than the literally murderous death cult.
what can i say some of us have just got it
also I trounce complete pikers like (checks notes) Peter Thiel
LessWrong used to call themselves a “phyg” in the hope that the word “cult” would not show up in Google so much as being associated with them
very not-a-cult behaviour, completely dissimilar to what scientologists do.
also, jesus, rot13? what are they, children lost in the usenet?
that was posted in 2012, and I am quite sure that a lot of rationalists latched onto rot13 as the mild encoding algorithm of choice because it was standard for spoiler concealment in HPMOR discussion.