And yet, plenty of those same LessWrong users went on to work at OpenAI and Anthropic making boatloads of money, like how Sam Altman decided wealth and power was actually more important than “x-risk”.

Then backfilled reasons why that’s actually ethically sound like Dario Amodei is doing right now (because the other guys are already doing it and getting rich).

So it’s not surprising to start to tune out the intellectual movement that’s most high profile contribution ended up being “we must build the evil machine god to prevent the evil machine god from killing us all, while coincidentally building generational wealth for ourselves”.