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

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[–] UltimateNoob@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh and also the roko guy. His idea of a time travelling evil robot sunk little credibility they had deeper and contributed to the internet urban legends collection, for which I am thankful.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

time travelling evil robot

Fun fact: In the original telling the robot is supposed to be the good guy, the eternal torment dungeon is just part of its optimal strategy to beat out actually evil robot overlords from existing first.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think we can all concur it maximises utility for all humanity across the quantum waveform of the universe to kick a million copies of Roko in the nuts forever

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

Why not make an evil time travelling robot controlled by the illuminati? ~~bro it's even called Alexander~~

Maybe they simply yearn to write Final Fantasy villains