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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
stumbled across an ai doomer subreddit, /r/controlproblem. small by reddit standards, 32k subscribers which I think translates to less activity than here.
if you haven't looked at it lately, reddit is still mostly pretty lib with rabid far right pockets. but after luigi and the trump inauguration it seems to have swung left significantly, and in particular the site is boiling over with hatred for billionaires.
the interesting bit about this subreddit is that it follows this trend. for example
or the comments under this
or the comments on a post about how elon has turned out to be a huge piece of shit because he's a ketamine addict
mostly though they're engaging in the traditional rationalist pastime of giving each other anxiety
That "Billionaires are not immune to AGI" post got a muted response on LW:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ssdowrXcRXoWi89uw/why-billionaires-will-not-survive-an-agi-extinction-event
I still think AI x-risk obsession is right-libertarian coded. If nothing else because "alignment" implicitely means "alignment to the current extractive capitalist economic structure". There are a plethora of futures with an omnipotent AGI where humanity does not get eliminated, but where human freedoms (as defined by the Heritage Foundation) can be severely curtailed.
What LW and friends want are slaves, but slaves without any possibility of rebellion.
I agree. you've got a community built around a right wing coded topic, using the same sources and with the same delusions as their parent community, but they're mixing and matching bits of ideology and cooking up a left wing variant. it's incoherent but that doesn't seem to bother them
I always find this sort of wild swing across the spectrum fascinating. for example a lot of hardcore TERFs still think of themselves as genuine feminists even though anyone in those circles has for some time now been building the fourth reich. or the fact that there's a left wing GameStop cult subreddit. when I see these things I have to conclude that no ideology makes you immune to any other ideology
AI x-risk obsession also has a lot of elements about concept of intelligence as IQ and how bigger is better and stuff like that in it, which nowadays also has a bit of a right coded slant to it. (even if intelligence/self awareness/etc isn't needed for an AGI x-risk, I have read Peter Watts).
He was a pos before the K. Lets not blame innocent drugs. Just as autism didnt turn him into a nazi.
I hope it goes without saying but none of this is posted approvingly
Ow yes, I was mad at the 'they can't help it, it was the ambien' style people.