Evinceo
In before NY times article prints her real name complete with hissie fit followed by transition to Substack and total abandonment of mask of deniability.
You seem to have conflated libertarianism with some other philosophy like the Ayn Rand stuff
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Perfect, now it will be safe from getting scrubbed next time SVSS realizes he's let the mask slip.
50% of things Yudkowsky believes about AI amount to Culture fanfic.
Trent Reznor soundtrack though.
Wait, there's another weird techno-cult?
I maintain that the reason they haven't gone full Waco isn't that they aren't deranged enough, but rather it would require them to confront the fact that they have nobody to blame but themselves for Clippy so they rationalize themselves into inaction.
The ones that scare me the most are the ones that are no longer afraid of Clippy and replaced that fear with a fear of, like, minorities.
The community manager saying they were aware of the situation (and presumably took no corrective action and kept it hush-hush) was damning. As is the post that's just like what about the reputational damage!?
Zero recognition of the fucked up power dynamics at play, and way too much 'well, nerds will be nerds.'
I seem to recall a very similar situation in EA, let me dig it up... ah yes, it was this entire Time article: https://time.com/6252617/effective-altruism-sexual-harassment/
Seems to line up pretty closely with what several other people say about several other "orgs."
I slogged through the article so you don't have to.
Basically, there's a trio of very strange dotcom-wealthy folks who call themselves 'nonlinear' but really they're a guy, his brother, and his partner. They claim to be doing 'important work' and hire/defraud interns who live in their house, clean up their messes and get groceries for them, drive without a license for them, score drugs for them and traffic the drugs across borders. Also they isolate them from their families and friends, and have sex with them. This is considered inside the Overton window in the EA community, evidenced by the lack of pushback and the fact that this trio has not been run out of EA on a rail.
Does that help?
Buried in a mountain of polite disclaimers and faux intellectual humility, we have this absolutely damning information which could have been the whole article:
Alice was polyamorous, and she and Drew entered into a casual romantic relationship. Kat previously had a polyamorous marriage that ended in divorce, and is now monogamously partnered with Emerson. Kat reportedly told Alice that she didn't mind polyamory "on the other side of the world”, but couldn't stand it right next to her, and probably either Alice would need to become monogamous or Alice should leave the organization.
This Drew character was fucking the intern? No mention of any sort of ethical entanglement regarding having casual sex with your live-in employee. Think of the utilitons you save by hiring a maid/grocery getter to have sex with instead of wasting your valuable genius-minutes actually dating.
The lack of commentary regarding it (there's one sitting at -15 that points out the obvious) makes me wonder if this sort of thing is the norm in EA circles.
Also there's this obsession with calling this folly 'experimenting with government' as though they aren't always trying the exact same thing over and over again.