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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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another certified rationalism classic yud-rational

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

roko's basilisk is just pascal's wager for unskeptical tech bros

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

So like… they really like the book Hyperion?