Ryan Broderick

I find it almost more insidious, though, than the right, I think, in a lot of ways, because they refuse to say what they mean and what they're doing to such a degree.

So when she starts doing the polling, according to her own account, she has now started reading rationalist blogs.

So she's reading these sort of AI adjacent blogs, which 10 years ago were like playing in a lot of hypotheticals.

And I think we're giving...

Okay, here's my hot take.

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

As the Reddit atheism movement, the new atheism movement sort of like quirk chunguses and collapses in the early 2010s.

Yes, horrible.

I think the rationalist movement sort of took its place as like an area online where like a lot of sort of smug people could like LARP as Hitler.

Yeah, I think there's something very darkly funny and ironic about like a bunch of like burned out atheists inventing like a pseudo religion around an inevitable AI apocalypse that they just like talk about all the time.

But to your larger point, let me read you some of the titles from this community that she's getting more attached to.

Scott Alexander defending pro-scientific racism arguments with, I argue things I don't actually believe.

Economist Robin Hanson, raising the idea of sex redistribution, the government forcing women to fuck men, which he totally doesn't actually support.

Also, Robin Hanson, father of the prediction market.

He's the guy who invented them.

Elaziudkowski, who, along with writing Harry Potter fanfic, muses a lot about benevolent AI governments.

And so she's now in 2015 going to these meetups where she's meeting like other bloggers and she's sort of kind of absorbing a lot of what they're talking about.

I think her sort of like trick is that she she was able to sort of.

I think authoritatively apply a lot of the doomer AI end of democracy, neo reactionary feudalist sort of talk to sex and gender.

And, and that is sort of what she's still doing to this day is like taking their weird fucked up way of like wanting to catalog all of human existence and sort of say what is good or bad and sort of apply it to sex and gender.