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I can see a scenario where AI does cause a whole bunch of deaths, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands DOGE ALREADY IS DOING THAT! Climate change, ALREADY DOING THAT! Does AI have risks, no doubt. Probably economic and societal, shitstorm coming, not a robot apocalypse.

From a strictly logical standpoint, this is stupid. If a Superintelligent AI is inevitable, then all this accomplishes is delaying its creation. If it is not inevitable, than this extreme measure is unnecessary.

but of course

Oh God, one of the 'only thing that matters is leaving the only habitable planet and living in space boxes on dead rocks, because sci-fi says so, so let's wreck Earth' dimwits!

Just as long as we reach the stars someday, that's all ok then. /s

I keep being reminded of Gore Vidal’s novel *Kalki.*

I don't like to kink shame, but there's a line where a breeding fetish goes way too far, and I think this is *probably* a few hairs beyond it.

Just what the human race needs, Another genetic bottleneck!

The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb.

Fallout is a dystopia too! These fictions are meant to warn not inspire.

Yudkowsky a genius? Looks like he's head of a doomsday sex cult where his primary motivation is finding people to predate on & satisfy his obvious desire to lead some orgiastic revolt. And get his rocks polished.

evil-dumb is murder-suicide attaching love to hunger is like sewing your arm onto your leg - the story-sense fails Delight in love Disgust for harm A clear moral lens does moral math all day, taking emotional accountability for pragmatic (necessary?) harm to life loving money? is loving corpses

What if I told you that basically every American boy born since my invention considers it his highest calling to *be me,* and would do everything in his power to hasten the real life creation of the dystopian world required for my character to be relevant.

And the connection went further than that.

They deleted that whole post. I saved the PDF of it actually, and have a coffee but it would have been move to know what happened.

anyway, i honestly don't quite grasp the duality of "this man is fine with nuclear winter if it prevents AGI, but also he's been so instrumental in all of us deciding to pursue AGI"

Damn! I was working out a post on it in my head. Oh well. I have another article.

Subscribers to SE Gyges' newsletter still have it unless they've deleted it. Which I haven't despite already reading it. If you're familiar with their work, you know it's dense and difficult if you're not very well-versed in the subject. Now I want to see what I might have missed.

Interesting that they left up the long Bluesky thread that was the basis for the blog post.

The bit about the Atlas Fellowship is what got me. I’ve been getting their spam.

I much prefer the sci-fi stay in books, but someone keeps rubbing the magic lamp. Beware the jinnis granting wishes.

Followed by: “I considered putting all this in a footnote because of how unimportant Jeffrey Epstein’s appearance here is in the context of everything else. He is the Forrest Gump of evil shit. Of course he was here.” 👩‍🍳 😘

it would seem that unfettered wealth leads to psychosis in many people and we should tax the shit out of these people until they have to live like normal people or have them committed.

Oh, oh NO!

Treating a whole field as one psychology hides the internal disagreements. I would test institutions by incentives, claims, and actions, not infer motives from their existence. Is that too generous to the people running them?

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Wow, it's so much worse than I realized. This article was horrifying. Like, the 'druggie rape cult is hosting summer camps for kids and now we're giving them billions of taxpayer $' horrifying. What the actual fuck?

A literal Dr Strangelove bit

Also, you know, what's the point if humanity has to shed its humanity to reach the stars.

I wonder what he'd say if someone suggested, instead of global nuclear armageddon, simply bolsheviking all the tech CEOs and their supporters. Because I suspect he'd consider that a stretch too far, which would raise some questions of who he thinks would be in that reproductive population.

Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race.

This is masturbation; you guys see that, right?

reaching the stars is probably ALWAYS at the expense of human flourishing. As no, I don't think we can flourish there, not to the degree we can on earth Of course I don't mean non-human discovery missions for the scientific knowledge. That's fine. I mean the colonization of other planets stuff

bonus points granted for citing the 1 Gyr figure due to solar luminosity increasing and not the 5 Gyr figure until it becomes a red giant

I heard Senator Kelly explain why he doesn't really think space exploration is a solution to earths problems and it's largely because space is *so* less hospitable than earth that you'd have to do *far* more work than just fix the only accessible habitable planet we've ever known.

Improving the lives of your fellow humans gets you zero attention from hedge fund managers or the disgusting freaks handing out government cash though

One obvious argument against longtermism is that its basically impossible to set a course for civilization that will still be followed even 100 years later, much like 100 million. The best you can do is leave the world better than you found it and strongly advise the next generation on what to do.

Knowing how literally everything Yudowsky thinks about anything comes from science fiction stories he read, am I off-base in assuming this one comes from The Most Unhinged/Racist Thing Heinlein Ever Wrote

Not exactly: youtu.be/Y8icpnrLqx0?...

And Gojira.

Most of them have zero skills necessary for survival.

A mix of the Dr Strangelove and General Buck Turgidson characters.

it all ends up at eugenics somehow

He's a rapist

"what a great film. my arm acts like dr strangelove's too" "the choking?" "wha-oh, no, not that..."

Like a major theme of that work is that Eliez...errr Harry wants to make sure that no one dies because his goal is to make everyone immortal.

does this guy think Civ4 is real life or

who gets to fuck this genius. Ladies don’t all speak up at once

Tells us he's a sex pest who fantasizes himself surviving as a breeder more than anything else.

hey maybe we could just turn off th-

fuckhead left high school before someone could explain to him what a genetic bottleneck is and why Radiation is the worst of all the bad choices for causing that bottleneck

ugh, if his vision comes to pass I hope im one of the ones that die in the inferno

my first thought too share.google/xdCiuOWWA6pR...

True that. But notable psychopaths like Kissinger weren’t in control of the information environment quite like today’s techno fascists

running the world, even

Gotta make a stop at baby harry potter before continuing on to baby Hitler

Pretty sure Silo was written as a cautionary tale...but hey, I haven't let Twitter fry my brain, so what do I know