The Rational Utilitarian Love Movement (A Historical Retrospective)

By CBiddulph @ 2022-11-03T07:11 (0)

This is a linkpost to https://ratutilove.substack.com/p/the-rational-utilitarian-love-movement

I found this post the other day and quite enjoyed it. Even if you disagree with all of its conclusions, it's at least a fun story full of hilarious references to esoteric bits of EA/rationalist culture. I recommend taking a read!

Vague spoilers below

The post is an alternate-history parody of EA, in which all of the bad parts of the movement are amplified just enough to make it truly terrible. It would never work as e.g. a submission to the EA Criticism Contest, but it hits on things that I think would be hard to get across in an intellectual essay (I guess it's just that darn pathos).