Comment by mokmu on yams's Shortform · 2025-01-10T22:18:46.258Z · LW · GW

I agree that there is more of an influence than seems to be talked about. Besides the obvious influence on e/acc and of Land's AGI opinions (the diagonality thesis, Pythia), the CCRU came up with hyperstitions (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/hyperstitions), which seems to be a popular concept with the cyborgs.

Maybe they also contributed to the popularity of "Cthulhu" and "Shoggoth" as symbols in some AI circles.