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      6 days ago

      No I seriously stand by it, even though I find the writing, structure, and pacing mediocre at best (just like thousands upon thousands of other fics), its emergence as an entry point to most people to rationalists and the whole cult of AI is genuinely pissing me off, because now we have american techbros who can just say “roko’s baselisk” to make investors shit money out of fear of their actually-not-a-cult-homegrown devil, and a homegrown hell, that they’re then condemning everyone in, unless they get more money to create their god

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        6 days ago

        What does HPMOR, or rationalism as a whole, have to do with AI? And I have a hard time believing that any major investor would be seriously swayed by roko’s basilisk.

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          What does rationalism have to do with AI?

          You’re seriously asking me that?

          Nevermind, go have fun with it then, I’m not interested