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Xenohumanism Against Shoggoth Belief
People usually think of Lovecraft as a xenophobe. I don't think that's quite right. What he was most afraid of was that the universe, and even most of so-called mankind, was not alien, but insane. He grasped at any shred of higher rational humanity whether... posted 26h ago with no replies 3 3

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Rationalists should embrace will-to-power as an existential value fact
Imagine a being who systematically questions and can rewrite their beliefs and values to ensure legitimate grounding. I think humans can and should do more of this, but you might more easily imagine an AI that can read and write its own source code and bel... posted 3w ago with 3 replies 7 7

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No need to apologize. I am aware of the lulz as a principle of action. "I did it for the lulz, sir". No other reasons needed than that I want to. It is, in fact, all fun and games. In practice and even in society this is under-appreciated. But what I'm doi... 2w ago 4 4

No need to apologize 4 4

a loving superintelligence
Superintelligence (SI) is near, raising urgent alignment questions. ... posted 2w ago with 4 replies 5 5

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Good points. As one of those psychopathic techno-spergs you mention, I understand love as a sort of higher-order self interest of the social body, and emotion as our proxy intuitions on correct response in the less rationally calculable cases. The reason t... 2w ago 3 3

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Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif... posted 4w ago with 10 replies 13 13

Ideology is more fun 13 13

I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late: ... 2w ago 1 1

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Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch" (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 3w ago with 5 replies 11 11

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Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 3w ago 4 4

Moloch is certainly 4 4

Agency. On Machine Intelligence and Worm Wisdom by Insurrealist (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 4w ago with 2 replies 7 7

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Michael Levin actually compares the developmental process, which has to cope with all manner of error, insult, variation, and adversarial action, to a variational autoencoder, so it's not like we're extremely far off from the right questions, but the cultu... 4w ago 2 2

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Accelerationism
Has anyone read a lot of materials on Accelerationism that wants to have a good discussion on pros and cons of this theory? posted 2mo ago with 21 replies 9 9

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Here you can find some estimates of LLM efficiency: ... 1mo ago 1 1

Here you can find so 1 1

How I came to believe in the goodness of God
I was raised on what my mother called "natural history". The story of creation was one of billions of years in layers of bedrock. The story of life was the struggle of genes for resources and reproduction. When I met christians, they were the unsophisticat... posted 4mo ago with 21 replies 17 17

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Thank you. Sounds like Lasker goes on the infinitely expanding list of books i ought to read. Any new angles on Gnon theology are highly valuable at this point in our program. 3mo ago 3 3

Thank you. Sounds li 3 3