Scott Alexander, The Rationalist/EA Community... and TDS

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You remember Scott Alexander and the (mostly Californian) Rationalist Community: incubators of Effective Altruism and AI doom?

I stopped reading Mr Alexander a few years ago, when the agenda shifted from libertarian-adjacent to progressive-tribal without the author seeming to notice. Just a few days ago, Tyler Cowen had to have a word.

I'll never forget the put-down I read years ago:

"A bunch of IQ 140 people obsessing about IQ 110 topics."

Exactly.