https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ablqn1/this_is_the_future_neoliberals_want/
The plan seems to be
In classic Yudkowskian small-L libertarian style, no mention of politics or government whatsoever, or even economy—an omission from the programme that seems to have gone unnoticed by the “neoliberal” poster.
One is tempted to assume friendly AGI fills in step 2, but I never read the source.
This is the one with the super weird and out of place rape thing, right?
Edit: Yep. For context, up until this section humanity is presented as Federation-esque enlightened moral paragons, having yoked major decision making to a quasi-priestly order of hooded rationalist elites. So the implied reading is that adopting the normalization of rape is a product of them being more rationalist than us. It totally comes out of left field and he doesnt expound upon it at all. I think he later said in comments that this was supposed to be a remark on the incommensurability of sexual ethics between generations, but that really doesn’t fit with the rest of the meta-ethical purpose of the story in which humanity is playing the part of “us, perfected”. He just inexplicably gave his utopia normalized rape.
For the record, the story is actually pretty interesting as far as ethics parables go. If it was shorter and DIDNT HAVE AN ASIDE ABOUT RAPE BEING OK it would be a useful prompt for intro ethics writing.
AFAIK the sub is pretty sanely populated tbh (and in fact, some of comments there are doing the sneer too).
Anyway it seems like the official Yud just actually posted. In a kind of serious, self conscious, way if I had to say.
Did you know that it’s possible to talk about good things without having to give an exact plan as to how they’ll be achieved every single time?