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1 year ago@cacheson Haha, quite courageous to link to Yudkowsky and LW without content warning and link here 😄
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@cacheson Haha, quite courageous to link to Yudkowsky and LW without content warning and link here 😄
@cacheson @ernest @24Vindustrialdildo Hm, how to say this… Yes?
It’s way to much to get into here, but this Twitter thread paints the dark picture of it (EY was quite central to the more humble and innocent beginnings as a key figure in the rationalist movement): https://nitter.net/xriskology/status/1635313838508883968
Simon DeDeo’s Essay is more well-meaning and great, but only tangentially related (https://simondedeo.com/?p=539). Yudkowsky is one of the original gurus of “computerland” philosophy, you could say.