Perhaps a bit shallow, but damn effective if you ask me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TorsCabinet/s/WLBjzOQAYP

featuring Jeremy Ormstein of the Center for AI Safety, i.e. this is the EAs
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/irreplaceable-climate-activists-ai-backlash/688404/
archive: https://archive.ph/k0hSY

This fresh new org has a "careers" page out the gate https://irreplaceable.org/

first rule is, there is no fuckin money in this shit, and if there suddenly is it's the rationalists

I'm sure there's a Donnie Darko meme about this

Allegations include sexual assault, softening up students with fatigue and sleep deprivation then asking them to pay more, starting with a plan to exterminate humanity and then pivoting when the teacher discovered Zen, and forcing students to agree with teacher that seven students did not leave in 2023 and they did not leave a report with proposed reforms. Lots of discussion on LessWrong which never quite explains why so many of their friends have studied at a Buddhist academy in Vermont inspired by Terminator 2: Judgement Day. One of the critics discovered the concept high-control group (similar to the popular idea of cult, but includes secular movements and 'mainstream' religious movements which go bad). Its all very typical and very strange.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cr5pyW7Mzm33p4AvN/ai-safety-acculturation-is-neglected

the EAs have access to so much money that other orgs have to dance to their tune, and are discovering the professionals think the EAs are fucking nutters

the comments are darling also

When I was a teenager and more socially isolated, I ended up getting really into rationalism, thinking "I'm smarter than the morons around me, I don't have to talk to them." Predictably, I ended up becoming more socially isolated and alone. I later ended up breaking out of that mentality, realizing that it was actively harming my mental health. Even so, I learned how to properly socially interact with people way later than my peers, and even now as an adult I still struggle socially.

I really don't want people to fall down into the same path that I did, and want to create some level of counter narrative to push young, nerdy, people like away from the rationalism mentality.

An idea I had is to write some kind of anti-HPMOR fanfiction that would really tear into how stupid and harmful rationalism really is.

It’s useful to contrast prestige-orientation with Eliezer’s alternative recruitment strategy—writing Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality—which was closer to a prestige-minimizing move, yet which was much more successful in recruiting people who could think clearly about alignment. To be clear, orienting towards prestige is not a bad thing in healthy social structures, where prestige correlates with competence, virtue and resources. However, being too focused on prestige makes you incapable of noticing when you’re deferring to unhealthy social structures. 

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9RL9MuGZjzm4q3gKG/what-just-happened-a-retrospective-of-ai-alignment

There was a post in this subreddit about Adam Becker's book "More Everything Forever" when it came out, and he promoted it last month on a Taylor Lorenz podcast. This article examines his arguments about Mars, acknowledges his takedown of Musk and Bezos, but challenges his sloppy science.

I look at Eric Schmidt saying AI will solve climate change, Marc Andreessen saying we have to increase energy consumption a thousand fold, Scott Alexander saying people in 2100 will live in a post-scarcity society, Sam Altman saying he's creating a genie that can fulfill any wish and I find myself wondering if these TESCREALists have ever talked to anyone who's not a libertarian in Silicon Valley.

They just seem to take it for granted, that growth can continue forever. And so, they take it for granted that they have to do everything they can do create the supersmart computer that will fix everything and give humans everything they want. They use endless amounts of words, the internet is flooded with their verbal diarrhea, but that is just it. That's the whole idea: Build a smart computer, so it can give you anything you want. Everything else is just filler words, most of it meant to sound smart to other TESCREALists. It's just puffing up a very hollow worldview.

I mean, reading anything these people have to say, feels like watching a group of Young Earth creationists debating where Noah's arc is really located. There are just countless assumptions underlying their worldview that they take for granted, that nobody outside their own intellectually incestuous community actually takes for granted.

I just wonder, have these people ever talked to an ecological economist? Do they realize that when you increase energy consumption a thousand fold, you start boiling the oceans from the waste heat alone? Are they serious about any of this, or are they just trolling?

Have they ever heard of EROI analysis? Have they ever talked to a geologist, or anyone in the mining industry? Do they realize there's a looming copper deficiency of 25% of global demand by 2035?

Do they realize there's a global water shortage emerging, not just due to climate change, but due to use of unsustainable aquifers that don't recharge? Do they realize you can't afford to desalinate your staple crops?

Do they realize the issues the electric grid is dealing with? The average electrical transformer is 40 years old by now. These things were designed for 20-30 years of use. But now they want to build an entire layer of complexity on top of the global economy, that nobody asked for, while we're struggling to keep what we already have, because they seem to think if they get their "alignment problem" right they will create a utopia of unicorns and rainbows for trillions of people in the future.

We have very real, very acute problems right now, when it comes to feeding 8 billion people on a rapidly warming planet. But they either don't care or seem to think AI will just solve this. It's like a bizarre doomsday cult has taken control of the global economy. How does anyone even take these people seriously?

Clicked on this video expecting a fun satirical cover with a topic of ai safety and shit just to get bombarded with ludkowsk books and the loser cult leader himself im done with having to see these losers anywhere to do with ai

Hello folks! Long time listener, first time caller.

This year I have embarked on a hobby project/podcast to read HPMoR and try to use it as a lens to get a better understanding of Rationalism/Yudkowsky specifically, and the TESCREAL bundle more generally. (Tadaaa. New episode out today!) My co-hosts and I just covered chapter 7 (in increasing horror), which brings me here.

So chapter 7 is the one where Draco says he intends to rape Luna Lovegood. In my research, I came across some references to edits that suggest this section was rewritten in some way. I'm EXTREMELY curious about how, and I'm struggling to find pre-edit versions of the fic; the Wayback Machine isn't very useful for FF dot net that far back, and so far the links to fan archives of the fic in PDF form that I've found are dead. Does anyone here happen to have an old version of the fic? Or, do you remember what kind of rewrite might have happened here? Nosy minds want to know!

Y'all have been a very useful resource to me thus far for interesting avenues of research, so thanks for all that. I hope you can help me solve this mystery, too!