tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7453757802303599579..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Deep Thoughts on Democracy from Eliezer YudkowskyDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-44424034607481251922013-03-15T12:48:12.852-07:002013-03-15T12:48:12.852-07:00> I always suspected Anissimov would turn into ...> I always suspected Anissimov would turn into a libertarian. . .<br />> but not, well, all this:<br />><br />> . . .now calls himself Oracle<br /><br />I guess that means we'd better wachowski for **him**!<br /><br />Does he bake cookies now, too?<br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-16975228376710675802013-03-15T12:45:51.550-07:002013-03-15T12:45:51.550-07:00> I leave to the side the question whether we c...> I leave to the side the question whether we can really<br />> trust in the basic truthfulness of Yudkowsky's anecdotal<br />> interlocutor who in answer to every policy question<br />> presumably responds like a doll whose string has been pulled,<br />> "Liberal Democracy!"<br /><br />To soopergeniuses who think outside the box -- er, this<br />blinkered alley of the multiverse -- **all** the rest of<br />us respond "like a doll whose string has been pulled".<br /><br />It's not easy being a soopergenius. But, ya know, somebody<br />has to do it.<br /><br />(Someday, poems will be written. . .)<br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-56658423509329917832013-03-15T11:38:05.349-07:002013-03-15T11:38:05.349-07:00See also the Robot Cultists' widespread infatu...See also the Robot Cultists' widespread infatuation concerning Market Maoism. One wonders what they will have to say once the Chinese bubble bursts?Esebianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352289295517890623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-63284904499344303712013-03-14T14:46:16.034-07:002013-03-14T14:46:16.034-07:00Maybe he's just preparing the stage for his co...Maybe he's just preparing the stage for his come out of the neo-monarchist closet one of these days? :)<br /><br />On that note, I always suspected Anissimov would turn into a libertarian - like all transhumanists - but not, well, all this:<br /><br />>One element in the trajectory of thought I wouldn't have predicted in 1999 is that evolutionary psychology is still controversial today.<br />>Secular humanism? More like secular who-cares.<br />>now calls himself Oracle<br /><br />And, ironically,<br /><br />>Whatever your ideology is, ask yourself: "Does it make sense in a world of VR, self-replicating machines and nanotech-built everything?"<br /><br />He has become some kind of old-timey imperialist who is still upset about how the Frumentarii are the only ones who can bear a fasces (I made my first gun control joke~). This recent change also correlates with his relationship with Rachel Haywire, who is herself a proud fascist, trying to disguise the gas chambers under the banner of anarchism.<br /><br />http://www.national-anarchist.net/2012/11/new-title-national-anarchism-theory-and.html<br />>The contributors are [...] and Rachel Haywire.<br /><br />Let us take a look at their manifesto:<br />http://www.national-anarchist.net/2010/09/part-5-racial-separatism.html<br />>PART 5: RACIAL SEPARATISM<br /><br />Oh, this gon be good.<br /><br />>In addition, the German National-Socialists and Italian Fascists of the twentieth century allied themselves with large banking interests and betrayed the more 'socialistic' aspects of their original programmes.<br /><br />The Third Reich failed because Hitler wasn't enough of a fascist!<br /><br />But can I honestly be surprised? I mean, it should've been obvious considering SIAI/MIRI/whatever's 'endless authoritarian happiness' vision of the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-71038619494054403832013-03-14T13:19:51.866-07:002013-03-14T13:19:51.866-07:00Shorter:
In addition to the usual wanking about n...Shorter:<br /><br />In addition to the usual wanking about non-existent sci-fi magitech, Yudkowsky also appears to be a megalomaniac wannabe dictator who has no time for pesky things like "democracy" and "what other people want". He's so super-smart, he knows what is best for everyone else better than anyone else does and he'd very much like to impose his will on everyone else...for their own good of course, if only they could see it!<br /><br />Sort of like a less cool, less smart, less sexy Borg Queen.erickingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15782878667594739997noreply@blogger.com