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The Zizians were only ever a tiny fraction of lesswrong.com, which gets about 2 million page views per month (according to a site maintainer) -- not as much as HN surely, but not a small web site.

Lesswrong.com has been in operation since 2009 and is closely related to the SL4 mailing list which dates back to 1998 or 1999.

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And yet so many cults and politically extreme movements seem to originate out of the LessWrong-o-sphere. Strange, that.

What politically extreme movement do you imagine originated out of Less Wrong?

Eliezer is very idealistic and attracted many idealistic young people. On one or 2 or 3 occasions, some man with sociopathic or narcissistic tendencies on the periphery of the community around Eliezer has taken advantage of some of the idealist young people (which BTW got these one or 2 or 3 men banned from Less Wrong and banned from in-person gatherings).

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