I dunno. Those rationalists seem to be in some kind of intellectual black hole which never had any danger of sucking me in. Like I have seen many strands of posthumanism and transhumanism, speculations about an intelligence explosion circa 1970, and figure it would have been just as much fun to sit around the campfire, pass a joint around, and talk about crazy stuff with these guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism

as it would be to do with anyone contemporary. In their orbit I get periodically annoyed but changed forever, no.