本文是每周开放讨论帖，涵盖了社区动态、付费订阅内容以及对边缘观点的一些探讨。讨论了ACX社区的活动，包括线下聚会和订阅用户的专属内容。文章重点关注了关于“异端中间派”是否应该为特朗普的崛起承担部分责任的辩论，以及对一些曾经被推崇的理念在社会中的异化和扭曲的反思。文章还引述了不同观点，探讨了知识传播过程中可能产生的负面影响。

🗺️ACX社区活动：文章提及了ACX社区在全球范围内的线下聚会，包括悉尼、台北、特拉维夫、剑桥、芝加哥、波特兰、纽黑文、华盛顿特区和曼哈顿等地的聚会，并提供了具体的时间和细节。

💡付费订阅内容：文章宣传了ACX社区的订阅服务，用户可以通过订阅获取社区的独家内容。

🤔“边缘领主”的黄昏：文章的核心讨论围绕着“异端中间派”是否应该为特朗普的崛起承担部分责任展开。文章引用了Adraste的观点，认为曾经有益的思想在传播过程中被扭曲和异化。

🗣️观点交锋：文章引用了Beroe的观点，认为不能因为其他人滥用思想而责备思想者。文章还引用了Adraste的回应，表达了对思想被曲解的失望之情。

📚后续回应：文章提到了Ruxandra已经对此话题作出了回应，为读者提供了进一步了解的线索。

This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. 95% of content is free, but for the remaining 5% you can subscribe here. Also:

1: Meetups this week include Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Cambridge (UK), Chicago, both Portlands, New Haven, DC, and Manhattan. See here for times and details.

2: New subscriber-only post, Twilight of the Edgelords, asking whether heterodox centrists should accept some of the blame for Trump:

Adraste: All of our good ideas, the things the smug misinformation expert would have tried to get us cancelled for, have gotten perverted in the most depressing and horrifying way possible.

We wanted people to question p-hacked psychology studies and TED talk experts telling them the Nine Ways That Science Proves Merit Is Fake. So we punctured some windbag experts, then woke up one day with an anti-vaxxer in HHS and half the country thinking insulin is a globohomo conspiracy - or whatever it is they’re saying on X now [...]

We wanted to believe in Silicon Valley, in the power of smart techno-optimists to do good and change the world. Instead, those people turned on us and helped elect a lunatic in exchange for his using taxpayer money to pump their crypto bags [...]

Beroe: You can’t blame thinkers for what other, worse people do with their ideas. Wasn’t it Kipling who said you needed to be prepared to “hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools”?

Adraste: He said you needed to do that in order to be a man. I’m a woman, so I can tell it to you straight: hearing the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools fucking sucks.

And Ruxandra already has a response here.