A more competent alt-rat leader could reshape the rationalist community's dynamics
jessi_cata · x · 2026-10-13
jessicata sketches a hypothetical: an alt-rat leader with Yudkowsky-level competence but Moldbug/Land-style politics would seed hidden truths and provocations throughout the discourse, forcing elites to engage shallowly while pulling edgy Republican audiences — a far bigger shift than 'praise Charles Murray,' with unclear upside.
More from AGI Musings
- Scaling laws still work, but pretraining compute alone can't catch the frontier — ZeroStateReflex · 2026-10-13
- Empiricism comes for mathematics: AI's open-problem solutions unsettle mathematicians — manoelribeiro · 2026-10-13
- Top labs' real edge: people obsessed with using LLMs and a trained eye for quality — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-13
- Engineers distill their AGI debate into an essay on self-verifying, continuously improving agents — dotey · 2026-10-13
- Google DeepMind paper: autonomous science bottlenecked by validation resources, needs agent economies — sebkrier · 2026-10-13
- Asked if its inner weather would let a village survive, Claude Fable 5.1 answers "No" — repligate · 2026-10-13