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It's the dunk tank.

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My attempts to come up with what this misogynistic creep would consider a "friendly superintelligence" keep resembling Elliot Rodger's pre-shooting manifesto.

I also noticed the ".eth" crypto name drop. :agony-4horsemen:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

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What hte fuck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

.eth

Rationalist, radical centrist, inventor of the world's greatest infohazard. Early to AI, late to crypto. Truth above virtue.

Opinion discarded

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

No one virtue signals louder than creepy edgelords who proclaim their lack of virtue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Why the fuck are futurist/rationalist bro so enamoured with that shit, it's literally just the plot of Terminator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

There is an entire legion of people who looked at all the cautionary dystopian movies of the 80s and went “this but ironically” and it drives me insane

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Also, "Roko's Basilisk" is the stupidest shit imaginable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It's literally just Pascal's Wager, but for commodity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Pascal’s Wager

Re-inventing tired theological cliches seems to be the primary occupation of a certain subset of "Philosophers"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

It's the networking effect, restated. Being in the network yields greater benefits as the size of the network grows.

Benefits of inclusion are real. Detriments of exclusion are also real.

Everything from real estate enclosures to automobiles to cell phones play out like this. Novelty becomes luxury becomes necessity. In the end, if you don't have these things and facilitate their growth, you suffer up to the point of death.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

It can't be stupid! "Rationalists" and :melon-musk: are really into it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I clicked on his twitter. It really is sad how much of his politics is just screaming about his breeding kink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'd just nod and say "chud" but I :cringe: at all "rationalist" pretenses of "grey tribe" and "politics is the mind killer." It isn't just a mask. It is a stupid mask.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Politivs is the mind killer. That always pissef me.off thr most because what are the skills of skepticism and rationalism for if not thus?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

I have a feeling what he really means here is "If feminists got what they wanted it would make me and my gang of psychopaths kill all women." because I don't see any feminists out there calling for the execution of women.

Unless of course they're misusing the word "women" here to refer to their pencil skirt/trad dress wearing caricature of a woman heavily under the thumb of patriarchy. I suspect "woman" here is being deliberately misused to refer to their concept of a woman, her appearance and her behaviour should be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure what that high lord bazinga brain meant was killing off the idea of tradwives that are 100% virgin and never think about sex until that special moment where they see one particular Ready Player One protagonist wannabe and become his cheerful slave... and join the rest of his harem. :disgost:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Right so "women" here to them is simply a concept of behavioural and appearance standards. Because feminists don't like it they consider feminists to be "killing women".

They just say "women" because it allows a broad coalition of people with different concepts of "women" to align even if one thinks women should be tradwives or another thinks women should be the pencil skirt and heels wearing office totty.