Post #2550235
2026-05-15 03:10 UTC
He uses the word egregore in his dating advice.
It’s like spammers deliberately including typos to select for recipients who are more vulnerable to phishing. If you say “Dating discourse is an egregore evolved for survival” to someone and their genitals do not retreat into hibernation, then they are ready for recruitment into your cult. Statistically, they will have already read the Sequences and attemded at least one Lighthaven BBQ with a white supremacist.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-05-15 04:18
I only know that word from an old (pre-pandemic) book episode of Behind the Bastards, so the immediate association is esoteric antisemitism. I’m not sure how common this is but it seems to support your thesis here.
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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-05-15 03:38
He also alludes to the Robin Hanson/Scott Alexander guff about the need to distribute sex to needy men. The specific story he links involves an antisemitic edgelord who seems to be planning violence after his last girlfriend leaves him. LessWrongers, if anyone is reading this, there are spaces where you can be social and not be exposed to these vile ideas which will destroy you and maybe some of the lonely people who give you a chance.