| ▲ | againstapples 2 hours ago |
| I agree they’re kinda weird but are they really that bad? |
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| ▲ | Viliam1234 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| is dying really so bad compared to admitting that you were wrong and some weirdo was right? for many people the answer seems to be: not really. |
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| ▲ | lbrito an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes. Their core belief system is morally abhorrent. |
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| ▲ | jplusequalt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes. Sam Bankman Fried was/is an EA/rationalist (on the short list of biggest fraudsters in American history). So are the Zizian's (a murder cult). etc. etc. |
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| ▲ | againstapples 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t see why I would judge a whole group based on isolated examples? | |
| ▲ | Viliam1234 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy | | |
| ▲ | shimman an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, similar to like how southern baptists declared evangelicals to be their enemy too for not being fanatical enough. Death cults are weird like that. | |
| ▲ | jplusequalt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other. |
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