I feel like this is going to be a pretty common cope line for rationalists that face an increasing social cost for associating with a technofascist AI cult. I’m sure some of that is legitimate, in that there’s been a kind of dead sea effect as people who aren’t okay with eugenics stop hanging out in rationalist spaces, making the space as a whole more openly racist. But in terms of the thought leaders and the “movement” as a whole, I can’t think of any high-profile respected rat figures who pushed back against the racists and lost. All the pushback and call-outs came from outside the ratsphere. In as much as the racists “won” it was a fight that never actually happened.