Comment by againstapples 1 month ago I agree they’re kinda weird but are they really that bad? 10 comments againstapples Reply Viliam1234 1 month ago 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. lbrito 1 month ago Yes.Their core belief system is morally abhorrent. againstapples 1 month ago What about their beliefs is morally abhorrent? jplusequalt 1 month ago 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. Viliam1234 1 month ago SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy shimman 1 month ago 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 1 month ago And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other. 2 replies → againstapples 1 month ago I don’t see why I would judge a whole group based on isolated examples?
Viliam1234 1 month ago 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.
lbrito 1 month ago Yes.Their core belief system is morally abhorrent. againstapples 1 month ago What about their beliefs is morally abhorrent?
jplusequalt 1 month ago 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. Viliam1234 1 month ago SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy shimman 1 month ago 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 1 month ago And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other. 2 replies → againstapples 1 month ago I don’t see why I would judge a whole group based on isolated examples?
Viliam1234 1 month ago SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy shimman 1 month ago 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 1 month ago And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other. 2 replies →
shimman 1 month ago 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 1 month ago And? The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks were both socialist factions who were coming from the same intellectual milieu, and they killed each other. 2 replies →
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.
Yes.
Their core belief system is morally abhorrent.
What about their beliefs is morally abhorrent?
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.
SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy
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.
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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I don’t see why I would judge a whole group based on isolated examples?