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Every hardcore rat needs to have a soft streak for a specific type of mysticism

But the mystiscisms are MECE

@cosmiccitizen oh, yeah! Of course! Symbol grounding problem=emptiness

"I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" as well

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"guns don't kill people, people kill people" is wireheading

Invitation to a retreat in a czech castle: ✓

niplav boosted

Extremely wide concept boundary around "punditry", tinged with negative emotional valence

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Punishing people for making clear predictions in a coalitional conflict by using the incorrect statements cherrypickedly destroys epistemic legibility commons.

We're making the most powerful artifacts ever created in human history, and we do not understand how they work.

Shortest AI doom argument that feels sufficient for worry to me.

TESCREAL∩open source surprisingly small: Peter Eckersley and...?

CONTEMPLATING HEMISPHERECTOMIES TO PURIFY THEIR NASCENT IDEALISM ON THE VERGE OF A HOPE-ASH LONDON DAWN

@cosmiccitizen on a slightly shorter timeline you will become your enemies' worst strawman

@Erik Man kann zwischen einer Schuldfrage und einer Strategiefrage unterscheiden

Do not ask: What can I do for less wrong, ask: What can lesswrong do for me?

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