• lurker@awful.systems
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    20 hours ago

    Telling people that the AI superintelligence guy also posted a Harry Potter self-insert fanfic to push his beliefs and recruit people to his ideology is a huge bombshell to drop on someone

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      9 hours ago

      There are so many connections between all these people and big events/culture war stuff that I jokingly start calling myself a conspiracy theorist when I start explaining these things.

      (See how you can go from Jason Arday to LW in 3 steps. Arday to the racist Cofnas, who is in a picture with Moldbug who was popularized using lesswrong).