Nick Land's drugs got him there well before everyone else, but I'm talking about the right wing cranks such as Big Yud that have kept up a mask of "grey tribe" pretenses, said stupid stale memes like "politics is the mind killer," and worshipped billionaires as the more radiant energy beings they are, being of the sky while we are of the dirt.
Sure, it seemed inevitable all along, especially when billionaires started outright buying ownership stakes in "futurology" conventions. It got especially creepy when the United States Department of Defense openly peddled contractor wares in such places.
It isn't fun being the Cassandra, seeing it happening in real time, warning people, then getting laughed off about it. I've lost real life friends to this stuff, people that were superficially just open minded and quirky in college but now wear the metaphorical armband and goosestep to wherever Sam Harris or other crypto-bigoted cranks tell them to go.
It was inevitable.
I got on around the end of hpmor. I tried goijg to the meetups. I spoke with yud a few times. I even tried to get a meetyp going. It was in a bikini cafe so it ought to have worked. One young man was intrested in how much milk he could drink in a day. I wanna blame it on the autism or something but look at us. It is just especially irksome that these people specifically dedicated their energy to solving problems and then go about it as poorly as possible and get the wrong answers