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When Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote HPMOR he eternal september’d LessWrong. This began a gradual shift away from STEM nerd norms to fandom geek norms. The outcomes were largely predictable and uninteresting. More interesting are the failure modes the nerd subculture underwent as things fell apart.

Chapman’s standard account of how this goes is relevant, but the decline looked less like sociopathic sabotage and more like unaligned geeks crowding out the signal.

Beyond intake filters it was socially accelerated by the pathological insistence that you’re not allowed to notice bad faith. The LW focus on ‘agency’ and ‘world saving’ led to a dynamic where traits that 9/10 times imply a generative person in a normal space were faked by geeks for social acceptance. The archetype persona was something like “Hi I’m Jessie, I write fanfiction but want to do AI research as soon as I get over my traumatic childhood.”

it's hard being a milf. it's hard and nobody understands

am i out of touch? no, it's the children who are out of time