I must confess I have a personal vendetta against Yudkowsky and his cult. I studied computer science in college. As an undergrad, I worked as an AI research assistant. I develop software for a living. This is my garden the LessWrong crowd is trampling.
But they're the Grey Tribe and that makes them above politics entirely. "Politics is the Mind Killer," says our autodidactical genius leader while being showered with billionaire money and proclaiming that billionaires need to get richer, faster.