'Effective Will Hunting': LessWrong forums get the Good Will Hunting treatment
csuwildcat · x · 2026-09-19
A viral parody rewrites the famous Good Will Hunting park scene for the AI safety crowd: Will can recite every ethics book ever written — Peter Singer, drowning children, the whole works — but Sean's retort lands hard: "You're just a kid... You've never been out of the LessWrong forums," noting he can't say what it feels like to have someone actually depend on him.
The bit resonated across the AI safety community as an affectionate jab at EA/LessWrong culture.
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