Outsider's take: rationalist/EA events feel like an 'apocalyptic death cult'
nptacek · x · 2026-09-16
Taylor Lorenz shares an outsider's impression of a rationalist/EA event: the visitor describes encountering 'an apocalyptic death cult' — people deeply afraid, mutually reinforcing each other's fear, and so emotionally committed to apocalypse narratives that they refuse to be reasoned out of them. A notable external critique of AI safety circle culture.
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