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zenosanalytic · 2 years ago

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what's even funnier is that these just-as-irrational-as-everyone-else-but-deeply-unread-in-history peeps have now moved on to pretending this WASN'T that big a deal in the movement, really, while STILL scaremongering and fundraising around AI for reasons that sound remarkably similar to this.

it never stops being funny to me how dumb of a thought experiment Roko’s Basilisk is and how many people who think of themselves as very smart had breakdowns over it

#riseofthecommonwoodpile #roach works #LessWrong #Internet Rationalists #Effective Altruism #AI #Roko's Basilisk #appreciative reblogs #Honestly it's not TOO surprising that a bunch of ppl raised in Xian households and ideologically open to conservatives #would end up being susceptible to a nameswapped reiteration of the very religion they were raised with #ESPECIALLY when their whole movement was built on the self flattery of being ~more rational~ and ~less wrong~ than everyone else #like: the movement declared it's biggest weakness right in its name! 'Flatter us and use our jargon and we'll take you seriously'#and WAY too much of the movement Spcl the Money in the movement Did #not to mention that Roko's is just a scifi restatement of Pascal's Wager #like: if any of these fuckers actually bothered to read a fucking book they'd have laughed it off their boards the instant it was posted #but of course: they're so up their own asses they hate books! They hate the idea they might not be the first or best to think a thought #and ACTIVELY AVOID learning otherwise #the maddening spectacle of a bunch of silicon valley preps bringing Argument From First Principles back from the dead 2k years later #The Internet #Philosophy #Politics #Rhetoric #minitagrants #zA's Pompous Philosophizing #zA's Intemperate Vituperations

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