I enjoyed Yudkowsky's written works (HPMoR is an interesting read with a classical overpowered protagonist because plot, Friendship is Optimal is frankly horrifying when you strip away the cutesy MLP trappings since the AI is actively murdering people, digitizing a copy of their consciousness, and then altering the digitized person to be "more pony-like", and the Baby-Eating Aliens short story is a fascinating bit of sci-fi with actual alien cultures instead of "like humans but...") quite a bit.
The LessWrong community can go suck start a shotgun while taking a long walk off a short pier while wearing concrete shoes, though. It's fucking absurd that a community that originally formed around HPMoR's hot take of "examine everything rationally through a skeptical lens" became a cult of personality.
Though, honestly, you can probably apply that to most larger fan communities; lowest common denominator comes in, gets catered to, and the fandom slides further and further down until it hits rock bottom (and, occasionally, begins to dig).
I enjoyed Yudkowsky's written works (HPMoR is an interesting read with a classical overpowered protagonist because plot, Friendship is Optimal is frankly horrifying when you strip away the cutesy MLP trappings since the AI is actively murdering people, digitizing a copy of their consciousness, and then altering the digitized person to be "more pony-like", and the Baby-Eating Aliens short story is a fascinating bit of sci-fi with actual alien cultures instead of "like humans but...") quite a bit.
The LessWrong community can go suck start a shotgun while taking a long walk off a short pier while wearing concrete shoes, though. It's fucking absurd that a community that originally formed around HPMoR's hot take of "examine everything rationally through a skeptical lens" became a cult of personality.
Though, honestly, you can probably apply that to most larger fan communities; lowest common denominator comes in, gets catered to, and the fandom slides further and further down until it hits rock bottom (and, occasionally, begins to dig).