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  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Also Yudkowsky is going to turn into a communist. It's going to take him way too long (guessing between 10 and 20 years from now), it's going to be hilarious watching him try to rationalize why it took so long, and even better when he starts blogging again to mythologize how great and smart he is for finally changing his mind.

    This is a far advance prediction of a detailed hypothesis with seemingly low probability, so, when it turns out I'm right, all the rationalist crowd has to bow to my wisdom, because those are the established rules.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I'm going to take an even edgier position.

      He's already a Marxist, but doesn't realise he's accidentally reinventing Dialectical analysis in the slowest way possible while holding his fingers in his ears yelling "lalalalala I'm developing positivism actually!"

      I reckon he's going to basically write State and Revolution in 15 years but it'll be called something absurd like "The rational sword cuts only the rotten beams of the cathedral"

      • Owl [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        :stalin-heart:

        You should write that! I know you've got the theory background, and you clearly know how to write in the rationalist lingo. You could write a rational!StateAndRev under a Definitely Not A Yudkowsky Alt pseudonym, post it on /r/rational, and convert a bunch of tech weirdoes to the cause.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I could do it, but could I ever feel clean again?

          Edit: also, is this accelerationism?

          • Owl [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I could do it, but could I ever feel clean again?

            Alas. If only there was a Dirt_Mardoniush.

            also, is this accelerationism?

            Nah, this is a false flag. Accelerationism would be if you somehow increased the rate of the natural process by which the contradictions in the rationalist community manifests. Giving Yudkowsky a brick of cocaine, I guess.

            • Mardoniush [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              Honestly I think drugging him with Peyote for 3 weeks straight would do him a world of good.

              • Owl [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Would you characterize this plan as more of a road trip movie, or more of a heist movie?

                Relevantly, I'm a good driver and have some unpublished major advancements in AI that we could use as bait.

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        His self insert fanfic character is clearly a maoist. When I asked about this people got upset.

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      • Owl [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It is meant to be a provocative prediction!

        But I read one of his more recent fiction works, and he's very clearly spending a lot of time trying to figure out what capitalism doesn't work, despite markets being so magical and special. And I'm estimating it'll take him about 10-20 years to exhaust every possible idea that isn't "private ownership is a sham."

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    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It was incredibly frustrating when in HPMOR he talked about need to decapitate local brand of Nazis, how established political interests need to smear everyone good, and how the hierarchies are always seeming much more just for those at the top than for those at the bottom, and then turning around and talking shit about historical revolutions. It was very :LIB: shit.