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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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In September 2024, someone in Bay Area Rationalism with the handles segfault, kryptoklob, and klob posted beefs with a prominent rationalist and mentioned that someone was trying to hide his "Adderall medication". The comments include things like:
A quick glance at segfaults reactions seem to me like he operates on 'if I just explain it enough to people they will agree with my side, and if they dont they have not properly heard all the facts', and he (the dox people dropped seems to imply male pronouns) seems to really begrudge friends/people he knows irl for disagreeing with him. Which doesnt seem to be the most healthy place to be in in a conflict like this.
What a shitshow, always sad to see somebody have an online episode like that. (As an outsider I obv have no idea what is going on, and im not going to dig into all that).
weirdly sbf-shaped failure mode, wonder how it helped that court case
Rationalists love to talk and post, and segfault had family who thought he was using too much Adderall.
Think it is a geek/nd failure mode tbh.
I have also done something like that in some messy situations and it was eye-opening when people just told me 'dude, I dont want to be involved, and thus dont care', obv a bit different than this case (as the people here do seem to care), but it made me realize I was stupidly trying to explain myself to people and hoping that helped with the issue/emotional issues coming from that issue.
Hell part of this 'people will see my side if I explain it' is one of the reasons some instances got defederated.
oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it'd have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don't worry about all the private information we're leaking!
best bit
also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour