https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Hun4EaiSQnNmB9xkd/tell-people-as-early-as-possible-it-s-not-going-to-work-out

archive: https://archive.is/NSVXR

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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    I was never in fact asked to leave, I just left

    I posted twice after that, once to say it wasn’t me who first posted Roko’s basilisk to RationalWiki and once to suggest that organising a wikipedia shilling effort would not work out well for them

    EDIT: no wait I didn’t post about Roko’s basilisk? I just edited the wiki entry with the correct cite