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"Historical Gnostics didn't actually transcend the material world; instead, they spent centuries writing incredibly dense, labyrinthine texts mapping out the exact hierarchies of the Archons and Aeons (the spiritual rulers of the flawed universe).
Similarly, the LessWrong community has spent the last 15+ years writing millions of words mapping out Updateless Decision Theory (UDT), acausal trade, Roko’s Basilisk, and multiverse measure problems. Both groups successfully mapped out a highly complex theoretical framework for how reality should work, while completely failing to actually bend reality to their will. They traded escaping the world for arguing about the architecture of the cage".

"In HPMOR, Harry Potter hacks reality because the author, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is a god in that universe who made sure the territory perfectly matches Harry's map.
In real life, the rationalist community suffers terribly from the map-territory distinction. They are brilliant at modeling human cognitive biases, game theory, and systemic flaws. But applying Bayesian priors to actually getting out of bed, navigating complex human sociology, or building the "Friendly AGI" they warn everyone about has proven impossibly difficult. They have the perfect map for a terrain that refuses to be conquered by math".

"The ultimate goal of HPMOR Harry (and the real-life transhumanist rationalists) is to hack biology, defeat Death, and become essentially omnipotent post-human entities.
Gnostic score on transcending matter: 0.
Rationalist score on uploading consciousness, curing aging, or solving AI alignment: 0. (Cryonics, their main practical attempt at "hacking death," currently has a 0% success rate for revival)".

"Gnostics believed the divine spark was trapped in the heavy, flawed meat-sack of the body, leading to asceticism and eventual exhaustion. LessWrongers often view their own "meat-brains" as flawed, bias-ridden legacy hardware. The result isn't godhood; it's a very specific brand of highly rationalized burnout, anxiety, and imposter syndrome, where they constantly judge themselves for not being perfectly optimized agents."