Articles on rationalist-adjacent cults: the Zizians, Leverage Research, and the darker outgrowths of the rationalist / LessWrong-derived / Aella polycule scene that is behind "AI Safety" in Silicon Valley. Working thesis: MIRI and CFAR read as high-control groups (cults) who believe in P(DOOM) and use sex (and power) maliciously — yet they are unfortunately the ones who have captured the framing of "AI Safety," which has little to do with actual safety.
@segyges.bsky.social has been doing yeomans work on this, and here’s a collection of articles my partner and I have started: semble.so/profile/scarnecchia.net/colle…
Rationalist Cults (by Scoiattolo) — Semble
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