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Yudkowsky denies the accusations! several thousand words in, and ten years after they were made (x.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [M] to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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yes, that's his high-volume account, linked from @ESYudkowsky

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[–] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Or maybe society would run a prediction market about whether ten years later the 24-year-old would think that it was a terrible terrible idea for them to have microdosed LSD as a kid. If society's rules were that sensible

Wha'the fuuuuuck

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It makes total sense if you think markets are magic and thus prediction markets are more magic and also you can decentralize all society into anarcholibertarian resolution methods!

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    There's maybe still a concise social history to be written of how all this crap congealed together. I'm particularly interested in the overlap between the AI doomers, the ancap libertarian weirdos who wanted to nail down their economics as capital-S Science™, and even the online poker grinders of the 2000s who aspired to become statistical-thinking robots. I hesitate to say any of this is undocumented, because the reams of posts are still out there, but a Michael Lewis-style pop history of it all would be a hoot. I understand Elizabeth Sandifer has it all well-covered from the ideological angle, and Adam Becker's new book looks good too, but having something covering it from the forum/feed-poster angle might end up being the epitaph the movement deserves.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    A Spider Robinson short story covers "is pederasty always wrong?" I think the topic was popular in American sci fi fandom in the late 20th century, Jerry Pournelle posted about it.

    Yud is more comfortable using his position in the community to discourage people from taking LSD than discourage them from screwing much younger people or violating BDSM protocols. He has written many times about how he wanted to be treated as a credentialed adult when he was a precocious teenager, and about the roles he likes to take in BDSM play. He does not seem keen on the idea that a community's norms around high-risk behaviour will attract or repulse people who you really do not want in your community, he is more comfortable with asking "is LSD generally harmful to the individual person who uses it?"

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