i shall now commit the great sin of legibilizing how tpot happened

im hardly an expert, but afaik it goes something like extropians mailing list-> sl4 mailing list -> overcomingbias blog -> lesswrong/rationalism (sequences era followed by a lil renaissance in 2013, which is around when i started reading it)-> effective altruism-> at the same time as EA, ssc as a sort of side exodus + addition of more normie techies -> postrationalism (largely on twitter) -> "this part of twitter" TPOT as a larger space for people on twitter who had been exposed to rat/ea/postrat ideas -> e/acc as a countermeme to EA within the larger TPOT twitter space -> general confusion as a fuckload of people from all corners pile into "TPOT" without it meaning literally anything anymore

@tenobrus

at this point its fucking hilarious how many ppl are now deeply entrenched in TPOT or e/acc with literally zero knowledge of their memetic genealogy

there are countless contributors, but in a very real sense all these movements and more are the intellectual legacy of @ESYudkowsky

@ESYudkowsky slightly more readable version

@tenobrus

here this works a lil better as a graph, lemme add some critical extra nodes to accurately reflect the history

(graph trivially made just by asking @UseContinuum)