Thread by @RuffleJax

#LessWrong and Effective Altruism are cults. I was abused by both Michael Vassar/Arc and Andrew Rettek, both of whom used @slatestarcodex 's writings to emotionally torture me.

Fuck Less Wrong.

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Sarah Constantin, who assisted in my abuse, Keller Scholl who tried to step on my boundaries to prove he was cool, his girlfriend who named herself after the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus but made it very clear I was dangerous because I disagreed...

Ray Arnold the wannabe cult leader, Thomas Eliot who got physically angry at people if they weren't pretty enough to be around him, Eliezer Yudkowsky who kept brilliant women as his "math pets".

Fuck them. Fuck all of them.

I include EA in this because they share the same vernacular and a major crossover -- and because Kathy Forth wanted them mentioned as well.

Do you know how shitty it is to call someone "a five year old in a hot twenty year old's body"?

Or to tell you that they deserve "one hot nubile college girl a year until I turn forty"?

THIS WAS NORMAL.

That was my normal for three years. Whenever I spent time with LW I was there to be a sex toy and a curiosity because I wasn't a programmer or a millionaire.

Alyssa Vance, who now works at Google, once walked into my house and immediately demanded that someone clean it. She would walk out of conversations she wasn't interested, while being careful to state that it was the conversationalists' fault.

Is it any fucking wonder these people idolize Peter Thiel and Elon Musk?

Accalia Bluejay, that was wolf-girl's name. She was Keller Scholl's "house elf".

And Elizabeth Tarleton, who shamed me for "wrongthink".

Here are some things that have actually been said to me by members of LessWrong.

"I can't take you to dinner tonight, Jax, I only have $50k in my checking account."

"I can't trust anyone, even my own parents let me down. My girlfriend promised to drop out of her PhD program to support me when I dropped out of Columbia rather than face academic probation, and she never did. How can I trust you if I can't trust her?"

[note: this one is full of Mage: the Ascension references] "I am a Hollow One sent to lead the Earth to Ascension. I can't tell what you are."

"I had sex with a woman at Burning Man. She was possessed by Isis, and she told me I was John Galt incarnated to bring the Earth to Ascension. I have to break up with you to follow her. You don't do anything for me."

"Everyone in Manhattan should move to Beijing to drive the price of rent down--but then we'd have to post guards on the bridges to make sure child militias from Africa don't try to take it over."

"I can't wait to be a hot poly dad at 40, that way I can date someone half my age and have it be legal."

"I am personally insulted that no one in New York City takes care of themselves enough to be even close to an 8. My fiance and I are 10s, everyone else is slacking and it's gross."

"What do you mean you don't want to see Eliezer Yudkowsky happy? What has he ever done to you?"

"Please don't ask me about my rituals again, I'm too busy and you're too religious."

The thing the head of #CFAR said to me after I spent about five hours catering their secular solstice: "It doesn't matter that your feet hurt because nothing matters in the end! Isn't that great?"

To a friend who complimented his shoes: "Thanks, you couldn't afford them."

On breaking up with me: "What is she so upset about? I spend almost 80% of my energy on her when she's in my space. I'm allowed to sext other people when she's asleep."

(we were polyamorous but dude come on)

"I never said that."

"Michael, you said it five minutes ago."

"Well then you heard wrong, because I never said that."

"All of my partners are scary. I don't know why you're all scary -- you're so nice when I start dating you, but then I get depressed and I can't control you when I'm depressed. I have to control everything in my environment when I'm depressed."

Re: my attempts to comfort him due to his lack of Angel Investors: "Shut the fuck up, nobody asked you." Then he continued complaining.

If the total lack of empathy or compassion for lady-shaped people here isn't apparent, let me know. I have more.