That Part Of Twitter, another euphemistic name for the post-rationalists who realise Yudkowsky is cringe but want to vibe with like-minded race scientists. They founded Vibecamp to this end, where Curtis Yarvin showed up and was feted like a rockstar descended from heaven.

Long story not-very-short:

The vaguepost is about Matthew Richard Sheahan (AKA @chaosprime), who runs an…“alternative tantric lifestyle community” (I.E. sex cult), and recently invited Brent Dill (AKA @HephaistosF) to live with him, as an alternative to Brent’s previous living situation of “being homeless in the jungles of Hawaii.”

This did not go well, and Brent left after ~one week. @chaosprime appears to have sent him on his way with something to the tune of $20000. They had a public back-and-forth about the whole thing on Twitter, if anyone cares to actually dig it up.

Contemporaneously, two women appear to have had, shall we say, “negative” experiences of living with @chaosprime’s “community”, and while they’re not making public claims (for fear of retaliation and/or wanting to Just Move On), this kicked the hornet’s nest of whisper networks that have known @chaosprime as a bad actor for some time now (at bare minimum, he’s earned a lifetime ban from VibeCamp events, and his “sizable donation” to them was returned), and prompted someone to dig up his criminal record and share it rather than staying quiet; long story short, 20+ years ago he was imprisoned for five years for child sexual assault, among other tidbits, to go with his current reputation of “Not Very Good At Consent” and show that it’s a well-established, long-term pattern of abusive behavior when in positions of power over women.

That’s the setting for the current drama-implosion, which seems to have resulted in @chaosprime being fired from his developer contract gig with Freehold Games / Caves of Qud (which is actually a really excellent traditional roguelike that I’d highly recommend, and how I initially ended up stumbling across all of this crap being relevant to my interests).

I apologize if you saw my post before the current edit, I was similarly confused.

To clarify, there are actually two sex offenders, Brent Dill ( @HephaistosF) and a friend of his, @chaosprime (haven’t discovered the real name yet). Someone recently posted @chaosprime’s criminal record showing that he was convicted of sexual assault in 2000.

clicked one of the livejournal links at random:

Personally, I’d have liked to see him touch on some of the more interesting heresies in our culture, like:

1. Children are sexual creatures

aaaand I’m out.

I’m clueless on the context but the level of euphemism in vajrakali’s big tweet has got me extremely skeeved out.

“post-rationalists”, essentially just rationalists who reject Yudkowksy’s anti-woo stance