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yours truley
10mo ago
Good comments.
Might be too armchair for your tastes, but it’s possible that the Zizians represent this even more autistic distribution of the various representatives of rationalism such that the final result is basically this cargo-cult; the inability to sufficiently model other minds due to some internal sensory discordance would potentially lead to a given decision-theorist to attempt to find ‘less effortful’ Shelling points, such that their reliance on the lack of slack in probability-space becomes so load-bearing they are unwilling to rely on any other mode of thought in these chicken-games. Others might have their general social conditioning take over at this point, as the general black-box mentality of ‘I can see what results come out of this after I take this path on the decision tree, and it creates a genuinely monster mentality’ seems to have some representation in the rationalist sphere at least with Yudkowsky attempting to argue against utility monsters as an example.
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yours truley
10mo ago
Isn't it weird how as often as the FBI does this, we've never heard about them accidentally letting someone they radicalized slip between the cracks and actually commit an atrocity? I mean, you'd have to assume it's happened at least once.
McVeigh described himself as the person whose fingers were slipped through originally to his attorneys. Of course, just one version of the narrative.
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yours truley
11mo ago
Because a better starting point allows the slack to be pulled quicker if you’re not expecting a super-hard takeoff? Although I’m not sure what Musk believes with regard to that.
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yours truley
11mo ago
I don’t think Musk really cares that much about that given projection of the future since he considers it probable that the singularity will happen in this term, at least. He’s probably more inclined to believe that Sama beats him to the punch and disassembles his atoms than simply being imprisoned by the next blob-appointed president.
Well, Steve Bannon just threw a Roman salute at CPAC.
I know some people may have reservations in claiming that Elon didn’t mean to do what people thought he did, and many will scream until their hearts give out that he did it emphatically due to some inherent impulse to troll. Bannon doing this (a month no less) after Elon’s own stunt not only means that this was probably in response to that, but also Bannon didn’t even do the same winding motion which was the cover; no, ‘my heart goes out to you’, or, ‘I am reaching out to you’, or any superficial justification, just an unbridled arm stretched out for the purposes of salutation. Accompanying this a proclamation that Trump is a great man of history, no less, someone whose coming is augured only twice in the history of a country, with Bannon proclaiming that only Trump is worthy to be the Republican Party (and therefore President) even in 2028.
The Rubicon seemingly is continually crossed ever-so-slightly, or at least, it is being approached for the purposes of eventually making it to the other side. This comes after the news of the Napoleon quotation posted on the date of Mark Antony offering Ceasar the title of King, and the White House social comms posting Trump as King. Obviously, the former is enigmatic as a function, and the latter humorous. It’s just an interesting start to a new regime seemingly radicalized by its previously downtrodden nature; defeated, the bloodied and uncowed rejects are now reveling in their victory beyond even the limits of their persecutors’ sense of regality.
It’s funny seeing Richard Spencer being a decade early to the seeming new tradition of Trump orbiters, and only if he had bid his time he would potentially have been capable of releasing his true feelings had they not been mellowed in time. Nick Fuentes, on the other hand, is late: stating his sensing of some ulterior goal behind this style of communication being only discomforting. This is basically like the twilight zone at this point in that, although these points don’t seemingly add up to one singular great attractor at the end of whatever this Presidency even is, it’s entailing something completely different.
Ave Trump, Emperor of the Americans.
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