The kind of person you described has extraordinary social skills as well as being highly (?) intelligent, so I think we're relatively safe. :-)
I can hope that a people in a rationalist community would be better than average at eventually noticing they're in a mind-warping confusion and charisma field, but I'm really hoping we don't get tested on that one.
I think we're relatively safe
Returning to the original question ("Where are you right, while most others are wrong? Including people on LW!"), this is exactly the point where my opinion differs from the LW consensus.
I can hope that a people in a rationalist community would be better than average at eventually noticing they're in a mind-warping confusion and charisma field
For a sufficiently high value of "eventually", I agree. I am worried about what would happen until then.
I'm really hoping we don't get tested on that one.
I'm...
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