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RT @PYeerk
So basically kids learn that there's no right and wrong, just a variety of neutral transactions and procedures. Cool twitter.com/juliagalef/status/
twitter.com/PYeerk/status/1429

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nerd morality may be horrifying to normal people but it's also much more scalable, and we all know that the measure of a system's utility is how many situations it can survive having thrown at it without failing

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RT @pervexists69
AI safety people: "we must make sure AGI is compatible with our values. first we must come up with a map of human values. no problem."

*proceeds to create a map of autistic nerd values that would horr…
twitter.com/pervexists69/statu

sure, I can admit the logical consequences of rationalist morality can be grotesque, but that's a reflection of the true nature of the world, rather than some attribute of the systems themselves. normie value systems function by obscuring the essentially violent nature of reality

egalitarian liberalism is so much more pleasant and lighthearted than evidence-based neoliberalism, bc it allows you to ignore the ugly truth & instead happily look into the distance at your beautiful platonic ideal

works great on the individual level, but it breaks a society

if your moral system won't get you dirty looks at the pub, its basic

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