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I do think it's noteworthy that Yudkowsky rationalism is an infohazard for some people in a manner not unlike Catholicism or similar mind viruses.

raginrayguns

actually it's not because infohazards aren't real

mereologic

as near as i can tell, the term originally became popular on scp, then jumped to lesswrong from there, than escaped into the mainstream through nick bostrom. definitely memetic information but not particularly hazardous

argumate

infohazards are real in the sense that gambling is problem: some people are weak prone to compulsive behaviour

sequel2heaven

"Memetic virus" here seems to mean "idea." "Deep in the throes of infection" means "believe". Eliezer Yudkowsky came up with an idea, then used arguments to persuade people of that idea, and now some people believe that idea. This is a very normal and non-scary process that does not necessitate the coining of new terms.

thrown-away-opinions

Yudkowsky and his assorted AI-orbiting organizations and "thinkpieces" about Roko's basilisk are mostly a danger to people smart enough to understand the surface level of concepts like AGI and the Singularity, but dumb enough to believe that Yudkowsky is an intellectual of any kind, and not just a very confident jackass who likes to run his mouth and built his reputation on titles he gave himself.

It's typically the kind of people who think someone saying a lot of words is the same thing as making an intelligent, rational argument, and then they will simply adopt the stated opinions of any blowhard who does that as objective truth. His arguments amount to fearmongering and finger waggling, but couched in pseudo-academic language and presented from a fabricated position of authority.

Kinda like that guy who claims to have the highest IQ ever, according to some organizations which he founded and runs and all have fancy titles, but no actual accreditation or recognized authority to genuinely back any of the claims or legitimacy of their own activities. Yudkowsky calls himself an AI expert, holds up his self-appointed title from his AI institute which does not produce AI research, and then says some retarded bullshit about the singularity and how we all have to worship AI or we'll be tortured in Sims hell for eternity, and some people assume that he's really an expert and must know what he's talking about, otherwise why would he seem to sure of himself and have a title that says he knows what he's talking about?

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Little Twerp getting Got (dramatization).

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peachnix

it sucks being an American because people from other countries will make fun of you for liking burger and you will try to be like NO! I EAT OTHER FOOD TOO! but you can't get the words out because you're too busy salivating over the idea of burger

edraculation

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are you stupid

bromios

It’s terrifying that a large portion of the populace believes that there is an immutable aspect of my being inherently endowed with dignity. It keeps me up at night in fact

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then what

beardedmrbean

Check out what they got up to in the Balkans while you're at it, maybe look into what the local culture and religion was like before and after they showed up throughout their territory while you're at it.

animeandcatholicism

I mean, they would have most likely put them to the sword or forced them to convert since they weren't "people of the book", demand that their sons became Janisaries and still commit atrocities far and wide, probably worse than the Conquistadors.

tlaquetzqui

Given that the list of colonial powers in the New World who weren’t worse than the Conquistadores only has one entry—France—yes, the Ottomans, the cruelest empire that humanity has ever produced, would indeed have been worse.

The Spanish Empire was well above-average for a colonial enterprise. The Ottoman Empire was so insanely, cartoonishly evil that you can’t base a fictional society on them without instantly being mocked as a cringe edgelord. Does “the capital is surrounded by heaps of slave corpses being gnawed by stray dogs” sound like something a real society would do? Or really over-the-top dark-fantasy villains? Because that was Edirne (Adrianopole), the Ottoman capital before they took Constantinople. How about “their troops have a standard procedure for committing rape inside other people’s places of worship, recorded independently centuries apart”? How about “every one of their leaders openly keeps a stable of little children as sex pets, along with his harem stocked with breeding slaves”? Or “their official succession system is ‘all the emperor’s sons murder each other till only one is left’”?

The Ottomans took as many sex slaves from Eastern Europe as the New World took agricultural slaves from West Africa. Putin didn’t make up Crimea being ethnically Russian: the Ottoman slavers abducted all the women and children to sell as sex slaves, and murdered all the men and old people. So when Russia took it from the Turks, they had to settle it with their own people if they wanted to use its Black Sea ports.

frenstimulator

If you immediately go on TV after your son is murdered to counter-signal White collectivism because the security services told you to then the next dead kid's blood is on your hands.

theconcealedweapon

This is how any corporation functions. First, increasing profits is done by attracting more customers. Then, once they have all the customers they're going to get, increasing profits is done by increasing prices or cutting costs.

the-perfect-wagnerite-again

"It's muh capitalism because it's cheaper" holy shit these people are retarded. Every one of these renovations costs thousands upon thousands of dollars, even though they aren't necessary. It's objectively cheaper to leave existing franchisees as they are rather than remodel them with ugly modern aesthetics. The reason they do it isn't because it cheaper, it's because the culture around them encourages the empty, featureless design as a signal for trendy modernism. They're expecting that a face-lift will bring a bigger return than the costs of the remodeling because the *aesthetic value of the culture* says that it will by attracting more customers.

Does anybody genuinely believe that Starbucks chose to style their business with a sleek, monochromatic, hypermodern design because it's "cheaper" by cutting costs on paint colors??? Obviously not, it's because that design signals trendiness and modern aesthetic values. And aesthetic value very much IS a big philosophical question. If "capitalism" is the only explanation you can think of for any given grievance, then thinking is too hard for you and you should just stop.

lilwolfgirrl

like. remember that shrimp post, about how that one channer was deradicalized by caring about his pet shrimp?

the key part of that story is that he chose to care about something other than himself. that's what deradicalized him.

it wasnt other people caring about and being nice to him.

like. look, if you're a man, trans or cis, and you feel like no one cares about you, or listens to you outside of the misogynist right-wing circles of incelry and transandrophobia truthing. you might be right.

but i guarantee you, if you choose to start caring about other people, start listening to them first, and stop making yourself the center of every interaction, you will find people who listen to you, and care about you.

radicalization, especially into mra or misogynist spaces, does not happen because feminists and leftists are mean. it happens because the men who enter those spaces dont want to care about others. and those spaces tell them they dont have to.

if you feel like you've been radicalised, or are in danger of moving that way, deradicalisation rests on you, its your responsibility. and the first step is learning to care about other people.

learning to care about people who are different from you, and who do have problems that are worse than yours, and who might even have problems that you've directly contributed to. learn to listen, and care, and support, and apologize, and take responsibility for the harm you've caused and are capable of causing.

and you'll find people who care about you back. who listen to you, and who'll respect you. you deserve a community who isnt afraid to call you on your shit, and we need more people on our side who wont socially murder us for being called on their shit.

lilwolfgirrl

no actually, it is your responsibility and yours alone to choose not to be an asshole and a bigot. it isnt easy, thats what makes it a choice, thats why its so rare. but its not supposed to be easy.

because society rewards men for being misogynist. it rewards white people for being racist. it rewards cis people for being transphobic, etc.

men are not treated like they're ontologically evil by society, stop fucking lying

jenpsaki

@macchiatosdumptruck I hope you don’t mind but I think people should see your tags

phoenix-theurge

We did NOT just go through 3 months of "I'd choose the bear" for y'all to say "Men are not treated ontologically evil by society".

Empathy is a two way street. Stop slapping the people who aren't going your way as you pass. >:T

gholateg

I like how it took a man loving something that didn't turn his every concern and fear into a weapon that finally managed to help him pull himself out from the darkness he found himself in.

That it took caring for something that never belittled him, never looked down on him, like his parents and classmates did.

That he's being used by people now as some kind of shining example of bootstrapping is sad. It was random fucking happenstance that he managed to realize his issues. No one ever helped him, no one ever cared about him until he fought his way out of the hole society shoved him into.

Shrimp have more compassion for men then these women is the take away here.

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

we been knew

thrown-away-opinions

Also worth noting that Shrimp Anon wasn't ever "deradicalized" because he wasn't a fucking terrorist, but was, in fact, DEEPLY DEPRESSED AND LOSING THE WILL TO LIVE. Don't frame a guy finding a passion and reason to go on like he escaped the Federal White Nationalist Grooming program for Incels and vowed to dedicate his life to feminism and trans activism. You couldn't even care about this one guy enough to not try to make his story about your eternally retarded beef with men.