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 hoping that this is not the best answer we have. :-(
To what extent is that sort of sociopath dependent on in-person contact?
Thinking about the problem for probably less than five minutes, it seems to me that the challenge is having enough people in the group who are resistant to charisma. Does CFAR or anyone else teach resistance to charisma?
Would noticing when one is confused and writing the details down help?
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