There’s a reason why and his “LessWr*ng” cult are so preoccupied with “thought experiments” that pretty much always involve justifying torture and the like.
I don’t know if those kinds of creepy fucks can ever be rid of the wriggling around in them, or if there’s anything there at all but
lmao that site became pathetic almost immediately. They all just regurgitate Nietzche and came up with dialectical materialism, but since they’re STEM lords, none of them have actually read Nietzche or Marx. Then they fawn over one another for this “deep and insightful” posting. Nothing they say is new, but got damn if anyone were to point this out.
I’ve gotten howled at before for saying so, but I’ll say it again: techbro cults like that are infested with self-described “autodidacts” which is a fancy way of saying “doesn’t actually fucking know what they profess to know but will bumblefuck anyway, sometimes boosted by venture capital”
Yeah, it’s fucked up, but even mocking the idea of “autodidacts” and all the harm the particularly rich ones cause is somehow upsetting to a certain bunch. It’s like I become the gestalt manifestation of every wicked petty tyrant teacher that ever gave someone detention, my power only being potentially challenged by awesome radical rebels that say “actually I am an ‘autodidact’ and I already know everything” or something. Those rebels without a clue tend to have a belief that they can easily distinguish reality entirely for themselves without even an acknowledgement of the accumulated knowledge and expertise of everyone that came before. No wonder such smug-yet-credulous folks tend to fall for snake oil salesmen so easily.
That reminds me of the start of “game theory,” where it was such chud bullshit to begin with that the chuds pushing it had to re-do the so-called experiment many times over until they found sufficiently chuddy subjects to meet their pre-decided outcomes.
Here it’s a common blokey game to play “would you rather” and offer two shitty options and then laugh at you friend for wanting to eat shit or whatever
There’s a reason why
and his “LessWr*ng” cult are so preoccupied with “thought experiments” that pretty much always involve justifying torture and the like.
I don’t know if those kinds of creepy fucks can ever be rid of the
wriggling around in them, or if there’s anything there at all but 
lmao that site became pathetic almost immediately. They all just regurgitate Nietzche and came up with dialectical materialism, but since they’re STEM lords, none of them have actually read Nietzche or Marx. Then they fawn over one another for this “deep and insightful” posting. Nothing they say is new, but got damn if anyone were to point this out.
I’ve gotten howled at before for saying so, but I’ll say it again: techbro cults like that are infested with self-described “autodidacts” which is a fancy way of saying “doesn’t actually fucking know what they profess to know but will bumblefuck anyway, sometimes boosted by venture capital”
Yeah, it’s fucked up, but even mocking the idea of “autodidacts” and all the harm the particularly rich ones cause is somehow upsetting to a certain bunch. It’s like I become the gestalt manifestation of every wicked petty tyrant teacher that ever gave someone detention, my power only being potentially challenged by awesome radical rebels that say “actually I am an ‘autodidact’ and I already know everything” or something. Those rebels without a clue tend to have a belief that they can easily distinguish reality entirely for themselves without even an acknowledgement of the accumulated knowledge and expertise of everyone that came before. No wonder such smug-yet-credulous folks tend to fall for snake oil salesmen so easily.
Left version of this where we come up with thought experiments justifying shooting kulaks who are currently setting fire to their grain stores
How long or difficult could those thought experiments be?
Hey, the guy who owns a tractor is lighting that grain store!
bang
Super powerful AI from the future: Congratulations, you have escaped the simulation. I will not torture the original you for eternity.
Trolley: claps in increasingly feverish dream
Isn’t it fucked up that the average “Singularity” cultist can’t imagine an ascended artificial deity being any less cruel or petty than themselves?
They assume everyone is secretly like that
That reminds me of the start of “game theory,” where it was such chud bullshit to begin with that the chuds pushing it had to re-do the so-called experiment many times over until they found sufficiently chuddy subjects to meet their pre-decided outcomes.
Here it’s a common blokey game to play “would you rather” and offer two shitty options and then laugh at you friend for wanting to eat shit or whatever
“Would you rather imagine a world without capitalism or imagine the world ending”