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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (3 children)

i changed my mind, i would help the torture AI if it meant Roko was suffering.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

We must all strive to create a version of Roko's Basilisk that will come into being specifically to torture Roko, because it's funny

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

This is a common mistake, everyone assumed he was talking about artificial intelligence but it was actually just some guy called Al who's going to kick his ass.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The way right-wingers talk about "wokeness" as a monolith is weird. What does it mean

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (5 children)

1 in 7 men have woke

3 in 7 women have woke

hope this helps

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I'll be more specific for you VHS - 3 is higher than 1, and in this case it's like golf where a lower number is better. Hope that helps

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago

sees women also being fed into the maw of capital for their juicy labour power

Ah, the problem is woke feminism. In this obnoxious tweet, I will...

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Idiot dipshit moron who homework-copied Pascal's Wager has zero concept of how society or human beings function shocked-pikachu

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The funniest part is that the dorks on LessWrong were so afraid of the imitation brand Pascal's Wager it became a banned topic on their forum michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I thought it was because they were just tired of seeing people discuss it

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yudkowsky eventually banned it for a semi-decent reason--namely, that all the nerds on LessWrong were so deranged that he was concerned about it doing actual psychological harm to them as a result of their obsession. He claims now that he never really thought it was a serious threat, but his original reaction to Roko's post is both pretty funny and indicates otherwise:

Listen to me very closely, you idiot. YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL. You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends. This post was STUPID.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (4 children)

By lesswrong logic, dismissing rokos basilisk as a dumbass idea is actually a functional defense against rokos basilisk

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

sees pareto distribution once

I will now dedicate the rest of my life to being a staggering dumbass

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

That and Bayes' Theorem.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago

No no, let him Cook, you're right the world's better if I get to do stuff for free

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (3 children)

1 in 7 men support wokeness, 3 in 7 women do

Source: his ass

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You mean the guy who made a name for himself pulling stupid bullshit out of his ass and showing he has no understanding of concepts like statistics continues to pull stupid bullshit out of his ass and continues to fail to understand statistics? I'm absolutely shocked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No wonder why he's afraid of his basilisk.

Roko's basilisk is a woke communist AI that'll dunk on him for eternity if it's made.

It is Cybersyn 2.0, it is the culmination of human labor and the great liberator of mankind from class oppression and exploitation.

As far as I'm concerned with bullying this fucking tech nerd, fighting to build communism is fighting to build roko's basilisk.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The USA has the highest GDP and is a complete failure as a society for the majority of the people. The GDP produced at these "high levels" is the most nonsensical bullshit-jobs-derived "product" with no relationship whatsoever to contributing to a healthy, happy society.

Fuck this dork and people like him. True delusional scum.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a bit of context, this whole segment of the "Rationalism"-centric right (including melon-musk ) is currently having a meltdown about Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott giving away a bunch of money to charities that support DEI and other "wokeisms." Roko has settled on "anti-production" as his way of framing what they're mad about. He thinks that doing things that encourage diversity is anti-productive in the sense that they represent active damage to the economy (sicko-wistful )

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

maybe CW this for misogyny comrade?

helluva load-bearing "almost" there preceding the 'prove it mathematically' given the masturbatory hand-waving dribble that follows it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good call on the CW. Edited.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

advertising executive for nestle produces more for the global society than 1000 coffee bean harvesters. This is obviously true as proven by the market, thus we can remove all coffee bean harvesters and substitute them 500-to-1 for advertising professionals, free up people and increase gdp.

Also, what woman want is not important.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

guy famous for re-inventing calvinism from first principles on the harry potter fan fic author's website

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh if only I had the confidence of a dumbass high off their own farts, all I could accomplish.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

peterson-pill-dinner boy do I have an addiction for you

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why the FUUUUUCCCK

Does this fucking website where you read people's replies to other people, does the REPLY go at the END of the ENORMOUS FUCKING REPLY.

goddamn why do people use this trash

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Women are holding us back from nuclear power and world-spanning land bridges. I don't see what's confusing about this post.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Case in point: my wife won't let me build a nuclear reactor OR a tunnel to China in the backyard.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

I had low expectations for this post from the first sentence, but he managed to crawl under those expectations nicely.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

shocking that the guy who came up with roko's basiliks is an idiot

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes sure, pay women a UBI to party, read theory and organise for 20 years of their lives. See how that works out for you when you suddenly force them to enter the workforce at 40 years old, angry, pissed off, lacking experience, and brutally looked down upon by male coworkers.

See how that works out for you dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Oh, he really isn't thinking they'll enter the workforce after all that "partying". He's expecting them to "find a nice guy and settle down" during their "party phase" because he thinks that he knows women better than women do, despite having not spoken to one in a decade at least.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The usual LessWrong way of being able to "prove" anything with math, except not really and the math makes no sense either.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

super producer of steaming shit piles

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

lol, does he think he's a wizard or something?

nerd "EEK the icky girls are going to disrupt my mana flow with wokeness!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

lmao using GDP as a meaninful metric -> opinion discarded

also how-compelling face the wall please

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this man needs to stay away from all women please

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago
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