I searched for “eugenics” on yud’s xcancel (i will never use twitter, fuck you elongated muskrat) because I was bored, got flashbanged by this gem. yud, genuinely what are you talking about

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    4 days ago

    This is the guy who is kinda responsible for ziz and the zizians right? Game theory BS that devolved into a murderous cult?

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      yeah, he’s the guy they accused of statutory rape and giving drugs to minors (as well as the guy who created the rationalists and all their associated ideas) in a recent post of his, he also implies it’s Ziz’s own fault she went crazy. quote “doing crazy things because the world is ending is a skill issue”

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      Yes and yes. I want to stress that Yud’s got more of what we call an incubator of cults; in addition to the Zizians, they also are responsible for incubating the principals of (the principals of) the now-defunct FTX/Alameda Research group, who devolved into a financial-fraud cult. Previously, on Awful, we started digging into the finances of those intermediate groups as well, just for funsies.

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        3 days ago

        Wow, didn’t realize there was an FTX connection too. I was only familiar with him because of the Behind The Bastards podcast episode about the Zizians.