These books were huge when I was in third grade. Even the
kids who hated reading ate them up. Obviously, all the 8-year-olds
immediately recognized the logical conclusion and became terrified of
Roko’s Basilisk, so much that my teacher had to ban the books from the
classroom.
Reminds of the Greg Egan quote ‘You know what they say the modern
version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as
possible, just in case one of them turns into God’ from Crystal
Nights, which I’m certain I was introduced to via reading the
Rationalwiki article on Transhumanism long ago.
There's also the Benign Superintelligence BootStrap Project from Zendegi. Though not sure if Nasim's sugar daddy wosshisname was meant to be a parody of Musk or Yud.
You can recognize a real loser by how they always
want to surrender fights that haven’t even started yet. Some even build
their personality around it and think it makes them cool realists.
These books were huge when I was in third grade. Even the kids who hated reading ate them up. Obviously, all the 8-year-olds immediately recognized the logical conclusion and became terrified of Roko’s Basilisk, so much that my teacher had to ban the books from the classroom.
Reminds of the Greg Egan quote ‘You know what they say the modern version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God’ from Crystal Nights, which I’m certain I was introduced to via reading the Rationalwiki article on Transhumanism long ago.
I see him giving compliments. What I do not see him giving, however, is money.
You can recognize a real loser by how they always want to surrender fights that haven’t even started yet. Some even build their personality around it and think it makes them cool realists.
this is p funny ngl