#PsychologicalControl
2 entries tagged PsychologicalControl.
People (1)
- Michael Vassar Michael Vassar is an American businessman who served as president of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 2009 to 2011 and later led an informal circle, the Vassarites, that recruited from the rationalist movement and used confrontational psychological methods and psychedelics, and that is widely cited as the tendency from which the Zizian group splintered.
Organizations (1)
- Leverage Research Leverage Research is a Bay Area organization run from 2011 to 2019 by the philosopher Geoff Anders that recruited from the rationalist and effective-altruism milieu to pursue a 'one true theory of psychology' through intensive group experimentation, and that former members later described as a coercive, cult-like environment.