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Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made (x.com)

submitted 3 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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yes, that's his high-volume account, linked from @ESYudkowsky

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[–] scruiser@awful.systems 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I haven't looked into the Zizians in a ton of detail even now, among other reasons because I do not think attention should be a reward for crime.

And it doesn't occur to him to look into the Zizians in order to understand how cults keep springing up from the group he is a major thought leader in? Like if it was just one cult, I would sort of understand the desire just to shut ones eyes (but it certainly wouldn't be a truth-seeking desire), but they are like the third cult (or 5th or 6th if we are counting broadly cult-adjacent group) (and this is not counting the entire rationalist project as cult). (For full on religious cults we have: leverage research, and the rationalist-Buddhist cult; for high-demand groups we have: the Vassarites, Dragon Army's group home, and a few other sketchy group living situations (Nonlinear comes to mind)).

Also, have an xcancel link, because screw Elon and some of the comments are calling Eliezer out on stuff: https://xcancel.com/allTheYud/status/1989825897483194583#m

Funny sneer in the replies:

I read the Sequences and all I got was this lousy thread about the glomarization of Eliezer Yudkowsky's BDSM practices

Serious sneer in the replies

this seems like a good time to point folks towards my articles titled "That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended a really creepy sci-fi book to his audience and called it SFW" and "That Time Eliezer Yudkowsky Wrote A Really Creepy Rationalist Sci-fi Story and called it PG-13

[–] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you mean the retweets or actual replies? Because I'm not seeing any replies to his comment, even in xcancel.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

It's in the quote tweets.

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