Criticisms of The Rationalist Movement

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The Neoreaction movement,⁵ is a notoriously adjacent idea to the community. Whist it has being explicitly refuted by figures such as Eliezer⁶⁷ and Scott,⁸ it is often actively-actively associated by critics.⁹¹⁰

The Roko's basilisk thought experiment was notorious in that it required specific preconditions available nearly exclusively within the Less Wrong community that rendered the the reader vulnerable to this 'memetic hazard'. As such it has drawn derision from critics who feel perception risk from unfriendly AI is overstated within the community.¹³¹⁴

Criticisms of the rationalist movement and Less WrongLessWrong have existed for most of its duration on various grounds.

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream academia and self-professed intelligence renders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream academia and self-professed intelligence renders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

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Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream academia and self-professed intelligence renders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream academia and self-professed intelligence renders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

The Neoreaction movement,⁵ is a notoriously adjacent idea to the community. Whist it has being explicitly refuted by figures such as Eliezer⁶⁷ and Scott,⁸ it is often actively-associated by critics.⁹¹⁰

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream academia and self-professed intelligence renders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

As such, the fringe nature of transhumanist ideas such as cryonics, AGI takeover¹⁵ has met with continued scorn from the skeptics based at RationalWiki.¹⁵¹⁶

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream acedemiaacademia and self-professed intelligence renderrenders him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

Less Wrong has been referred to as a cult phyg on numerous occasions,¹²³ with Eliezer Yudkowsky as its leader. Eliezer's confidence in his AI safety work outside of mainstream acedemia and self-professed intelligence render him highly unpopular with his critics.⁴

As such, the fringe nature of transhumanist ideas such as cryonics, AI and such has met with continued scorn from the skeptics based at RationalWiki.¹⁵