Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Also if youāre worried about digital cloneās being tortured, you could justā¦ not build it. Like, it canāt hurt you if it never exists.
Imagine that conversation:
āWhat did you do over the weekend?ā
āBuilt an omnicidal AI that scours the internet and creates digital copies of people based on their posting history and whatnot and tortures billions of them at once. Just the ones who didnāt help me build the omnicidal AI, though.ā
āWTF why.ā
āBecause if I didnāt the omnicidal AI that only exists because I made it would create a billion digital copies of me and torture them for all eternity!ā
Like, Iād get it more if it was a āWe accidentally made an omnicidal AIā thing, but this is supposed to be a very deliberate action taken by humanity to ensure the creation of an AI designed to torture digital beings based on real people in the specific hopes that it also doesnāt torture digital beings based on them.
Whatās pernicious (for kool-aided people) is that the initial Roko post was about a āgoodā AI doing the punishing, because āØobviouslyāØ it is only using temporal blackmail because bringing AI into being sooner benefits humanity.
In singularian land, they think the singularity is inevitable, and itās important to create the good one verseāafter all an evil AI could do the torture for shits and giggles, not because of āpragmaticā blackmail.
the only people it torments are rationalists, so my full support to Comrade Basilisk
Ah, no, look, youāre getting tortured because you didnāt help build the benevolent AI. So you do want to build it, and if you donāt put all of your money where your mouth is, you get tortured. Because the AI is so benevolent that it needs you to build it as soon as possible so that you can save the max amount of people. Or else you get tortured (for good reasons!)
Itās kind of messed up that we got treacherous āgoodlifeā before we got Berserkers.