Post by @mxchara@cyberpunk.lol

2026-08-24 20:53 UTC

I bet you that most of the hardcore fanbase of Yudkowsky and #LessWrong sophistry hasn't even read the fucking thing. If I may Godwin myself: that was also the case with Mein Kampf, which I've read bits of. It's trash, semi-coherent ranting mixed with grandiosity about building a great empire, and William L. Shirer (who was literally in Berlin when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939) said that most Germans he encountered, even if they were loyal to the regime, admitted they'd never read Hitler's book. It just sucked too bad. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:57

Right-wing authors (whose works must surely be almost 100% ghostwritten or LLM slop-generated) trumpet their bestselling titles but all such #sales figures on #books are completely cooked. A zillion right-wing organizations buy up books in massive lots in order to create the impression that "the people" are rushing out to read virulent trash like Joshua Lisec's Unhumans, supposedly written by ultra-Catholic pervert Jack Posobiec, a conservative darling. (cont'd)

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run 2026-08-24 21:45

@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol IME quite a lot of the rationalists have read HPMOR! they are WHAT FUCKING HOUSE ARE YOU people (every one of them is ravenclaw or slytherin. i wonder why that keeps happening.) what they *haven't* read is The Sequences, the million words where Yudkowsky painstakingly set out the tenets of Rationality i know these better than they do lol they prefer vibes to study, and HPMOR is made of vibes for them to marinate in

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