They are not really talking about us, they are talking about an imagined group of badguys, for all their talks about intellectual turing tests they fail the most basic ones at their own detractors. This does however worry my paranoid mind, as this does mean that the more deranged parts of Rationalism might try and take action against people from sneerclub. I have no desire to be doxed and then have weird LW/EA kids from local universities visit my home. (or make working in tech harder for me).

Zack seems to want to transition, has detailed logic as to why not to, and is determined to make it everyone else's problem

Yeah i didn’t read much, but at one point in my life i was attempting to do something like that and I see all the telltale signs. The difference is that as a teenager I grew up and developed the emotional maturity to understand that no amount of wanting to not be trans would make me cis, just trans and miserable.

Also I grew up and learned how absolutely bonkers rationalism is as a philosophy.

They seem so deep in that the idea of “what would make me happy” has left the equation long ago

That kind of stuff does make me feel sad, like all the trans people who start out hating on trans people on 4chan. (Don't get me wrong they still suck and they should stop, but I can feel multiple emotions and also feel a bit sad about them)