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		krapp 47 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guess I'm a rationalist now These are the people who came up with Roko's Basilisk, Effective Altruism and spawned the Zizians. I think Robert Evans described them not as a cult but as a cult incubator, or something along those lines.

hollerith 46 days ago | [–]

Effective altruism wasn't started by the Berkeley rationalists.

They have separate origins, but have come to overlap.

antondd 46 days ago | [–]

YCombinator but for cults

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