▲ 117 ▼ A narcissist and a schizophrenic walk into a bar (awful.systems) submitted 1 year ago by visaVisa@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems 28 comments fedilink hide all child comments Mfw my doomsday ai cult attracts ai cultists of a flavor I don't like Not a fan of yud but getting daily emails from delulus would drive me to wish for the basilisk
[–] prw@mastodon.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) @zzx @visaVisa I'd settle for him finding it a career necessity to become a born-again Christian a la Russell Brand. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children) He and his cult already have Hell/Pascal’s Wager (Roko’s Basilisk), a good chunk of Russian Cosmism (pretty much the entirety of transhumanism) and a very skewed gender balance, so finding their way back through one of the branches of Russian Orthodoxy that appeal to right-wing American men angry at how “woke” and feminised the world has gotten might be the most likely option. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] visaVisa@awful.systems [S] 4 points 1 year ago LW are the fundamentalist baptists of AI not even Russian Orthodox lol Everytime I get freaked out by AI doom posts on twitter they're always coming from a LW goon who's street preaching about how we need to count our Christmases :< i just saw one that got my nerves on edge and checked their account and they had "printed HPMOR" in their bio and I facepalmed permalink fedilink source parent [–] zzx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago LITERALLY permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children) He and his cult already have Hell/Pascal’s Wager (Roko’s Basilisk), a good chunk of Russian Cosmism (pretty much the entirety of transhumanism) and a very skewed gender balance, so finding their way back through one of the branches of Russian Orthodoxy that appeal to right-wing American men angry at how “woke” and feminised the world has gotten might be the most likely option. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] visaVisa@awful.systems [S] 4 points 1 year ago LW are the fundamentalist baptists of AI not even Russian Orthodox lol Everytime I get freaked out by AI doom posts on twitter they're always coming from a LW goon who's street preaching about how we need to count our Christmases :< i just saw one that got my nerves on edge and checked their account and they had "printed HPMOR" in their bio and I facepalmed permalink fedilink source parent [–] zzx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago LITERALLY permalink fedilink source parent
[–] visaVisa@awful.systems [S] 4 points 1 year ago LW are the fundamentalist baptists of AI not even Russian Orthodox lol Everytime I get freaked out by AI doom posts on twitter they're always coming from a LW goon who's street preaching about how we need to count our Christmases :< i just saw one that got my nerves on edge and checked their account and they had "printed HPMOR" in their bio and I facepalmed permalink fedilink source parent