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Why is it whenever I read a rat/EA writing, all I can think of is a dude in a shitty fedora at thanksgiving saying "Maternal unit, can you please pass the sodium chloride?? I need to season my avian dinosaur"

Yudkowsky is sort of the proto-this-type-of-guy, fedora and all. Like the stereotype is partially formed from him

I feel like I stumbled into some sort of rabbit hole of internet culture that I shouldn't know. I considered myself chronically online, but the discovery of Yud feels like I just found the missing link

It's a cursed knowledge. Was.. rather funny to see the lightbulb pop up for a friend when I've mentioned that "rational fiction", "hp & mor" and "roko's basilisk forum" all exist because of the same single person

No way this is that same person! Holy fuck, I feel like I'm losing it lol

He wrote HPMOR, and "rational fiction" is a result of that And "basilisk" was a post by "Roko" on LessWrong, Yukowsky blog's and namesake forum. He basically popularized it because of his intense reaction in the reply to it

It's a rabbit hole of 20 years of internet community growing and splintering around a guy who hit the right tone for a certain demographic to listen to him too much Also most of it is American Christian/etc half-remembered religion stuff wrapped in "atheism"

I think one of the recent things that had me utterly floored was Yudkowsky using his fanfic as a reference for how to write fiction In 2026, not 2016 He... Didn't improve, and has no other references... It's almost sad in this "wow this is worse than I expected" way