I have a feeling that both Jordan “Crémieux Receuil” Lasker and Curtis Yarvin will be present as guests. https://less.online/
Yud made them list him under both Project Lawful/Planecrash and the Sequences/HPMOR. I think he is really proud of his million words of forum posts about D&D, BDSM, and eugenics, like an elderly L. Ron Hubbard really wanted to write another bestseller.
They hope to get the creator of Worm (the webcomic serial fiction that Ziz Lasota was a fan of) and Dominic Cummings. Also some postrationalists like The Last Psychiatrist and Meaningness.
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Listing all those people a lot of whom have not mentioned they are coming feels so scummy. Putting https://www.smbc-comics.com/ on the list is bold however.
If I were invited to this conference, I would have an intense “your approval fills me with shame” moment.
It looks like the guests are mostly LW/EA/postrationalist bloggers, Bay Area tech executives like Paul Graham, and wealthy Libertarian pundits like Tyler Cowen. They are trying to recruit some general geeky figures:
- ccp grey (a pop science YouTuber, no RationalWiki presence but he has posted that he is worried about AI)
- Bret Devereaux of ACOUP (shows no interest! I think he is serious about being a centrist Liberal who would happily shoot slavers with the 16th Maine and say his prayers afterwards)
- Dan Luu (software developer in Vancouver, BC, not SF or Seattle, hosts a critique of HPMOR )
- oktrends (our friends like data and have trouble with dating, and the original OK Cupid blog played with race thinking)
- smbc webcomic
- Tim Urban of Wait but Why, Also present at Hereticon)
- Worm web serial
- xkcd webcomic (really does not seem like someone who would like them)
Does anyone spot any outsiders they are hoping to bring in?
That is just life as a creator who makes meaningful amounts of money (you can’t control your fans or prevent them from misreading), but in addition, I think one purpose of these events is to corrupt people. Lobbyists host events in nice hotels with fancy catering for a reason.
Make no mistake: Worm is not a webcomic. It is words. So many fucking words. (I made it about 30% in before realizing I could do literally anything else with my time).
Remember when Scott A was so mad his name was in the NYT he wilded out and got half of HN to cancel their subs? Those were good times, when I wasn’t jumpscared by his pasty face on random websites.
I think this is why the guests are listed as blogs not names or handles. Newbies are not supposed to know that many of them have funded or boinked each other.
