another certified rationalism classic 
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Please, I need details on the middle dominoes. I remember reading a few chapters of that fanfic way back when and thought it was cringe as hell. What on god’s green earth did that Tumblr account give rise to?
imagine a group of people lead by a guy who dropped out of middle school who are collectively afraid he’s so smart and logical that his ideas are going to lead to the creation of a time-untethered computer who will torture other people in the past that didn’t help build it (unclear whether they want this to happen)
roko's basilisk is just pascal's wager for unskeptical tech bros
gross simplification of the utterly baffling circle that is Eliezer Yudkowsky and his sycophants but it’s all you really need to know to get the essence of it
So like… they really like the book Hyperion?
The last two TrueAnon episodes are about it.
Oh nice. I’ll be back in like 10 hours.
He was a self help guy for the dumbest nerds of silicon valley. His idea was that if you used logic and reason you could make better decisions in your life. Somehow he then told everyone conservative libertarian theory was the most rational and to also give him money to do workshops about it. Would you belive that he created a sex cult for programmers and after that went as you would expect he was an intellectual dark web kinda guy.
And this was the guy that made that silly Harry Potter fanfic? Incredible. Weirded timeline.
Bonus, his self insert hero character invents falgsc and uses the contradictions of liberalism to do it. Which he denied when I point out the implications of his work. So like the exact mathematically dumbest smart person. A fascinating case