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I think the relevance of their transness is not very significant. The lesswrong apocalypse cult has been feeding people's mental illness for years. Their tran
by nullc 2y ago
I think the relevance of their transness is not very significant.
The lesswrong apocalypse cult has been feeding people's mental illness for years. Their transness likely made them more outsiders to the cult proper, so e.g. they didn't get diverted off into becoming Big Yud's BSDM "math pets" like other women in the cult.
I doubt they are significantly more mentally ill than other members of the cult they just had less support to channel their vulnerability into forms more beneficial to the cult leaders.
Yudkowsky wrote an editorial in Time advocating for the use of nuclear weapons against civilians to prevent his imagined AI doomsday... and people are surprised that some of his followers didn't get the memo that think-pieces are for only for navel gazing. If not for the fact that the goal of cult leaders is generally to freeze their victims into inaction and compliance we probably would have seen more widespread murder as a result of Yud cult's violent rhetoric.
- llm_trw 2y agoI shudder to ask, but what exactly is a math pet?
- photonthug 2y agoSomeone that you introduce to free group actions and the Cox-Zucker machine, hairy ball theorems, stuff like that
- evanmoran 2y agoHave you seen it come up with bott periodicity and the onto ele in twister space?
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- CSMastermind 2y agoI was unacquainted with the term but after searching it seems that Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several posts on a BDSM website where he fantasized about recruiting a harem of highly educated women to service him which he called "math pets".
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- kbelder 2y ago>...recruiting a harem of highly educated women to service him which he called "math pets". Dammit, now I have a new fetish.
- elif 2y ago>I doubt they are significantly more mentally ill than other members. Why would this certain group defy the US trend of being 4-7x more likely afflicted by depressive dissorder? We are talking about a demographic with a 46% rate of suicidal ideation and you doubt that's significant why?
- nullc 2y agoSuicidal ideation, for example, is common in the lesswrong community, even with people pledging to end their own lives before the machine overlord is able to scan their brains and simulate an infinitude of copies of them in a state of perpetual torture. Essentially the community in discussion is already selected for and generates mental illness, so the ordinary comorbidities of transgendered persons are likely less relevant.
- elif 2y agoI am not a doctor but I don't think that's how comorbidities work. You can't just say "yea he had diarrhea so it isn't relevant that he never drinks water. Clearly the diarrhea is the issue"
- Texasian 2y ago… lesswrong apocalypse cult? Like the guy who wrote that insufferable Harry Potter fanfiction?