r/LessWrong

Casual here, I’ve visited lesswrong now and then over the years, always liked what I saw.

Now that Yudkowski’s coming into prominence some more, (for bring up all sorts of stuff goddamn years before pretty much everyone, like deception in ai)—I find that people still goddamn hate him!

For fucking what?

I guess one might have disagreements with the standard views of LessWrong, but shit, almost goddamn everybody comes in with the most uncharitable interpretations.

I fucking swear-when ai kills us all, its a guarantee people will still scumfuck their way out of paying Yudkowski his due.

You have asked: "This isn't really the kind of post for this subreddit" and you have some semblance of a legitimate point in that you are sincerely confused.

> It's mind blowing to me that people "pick a team", and whatever the majority of the team believe, those become the values of the team. Liberal, conservative, progressive, fascist, none of it has any connection to political theory. It is purely tribalism.

You people partake of the benefits which your tribalism creates, a shared narrative (which is instantly, by virtue of Zizek, an ideology.) without taking responsibility for the necessity of the accompanying tribal downsides, those being the accrual of a reputation.

Scott Alexander's extended social media environments are filled with fascists and pseudofascists. Make Speech Free Again, not merely convenient for the racists.

You have heard it said, said it yourself sometimes, that the spread of ideas in a culture is related to religion, because every idea contains within it the narrative assumptions of the concepts at work.

But there is this great difference between written matters of virtue, and written matters about virtue. You might think that leftists write their values, and thus encode a moral understanding. Perhaps they do.

Nevertheless, "oppression discourse" fundamentally takes as its axiomism a Christian-infused humanism. If Wokes are a culture (they are), their religion is secular or loosely spiritual in a Christian heritage, but that does not make them Christian.

Because "the left" is broadly informed on sociological realities like the dangers of personality cults, the left has a better immune response to cult figures and is, arguably, too careful.

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Seriously the AI plans to kill us this summer with the fascists predisposed to killing off humans, and the people who can understand the problem are, by and large, the academic 'wokes' you despise. Not all of you. Maybe not most of you.

But enough of you that your reputation is marred. Deservedly.

That's why I write here.