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I better make a new shelter full of holes, gotta let the radioactive rain in. And also live amongst 200 year old skeletons in a diner. No I won't be moving the skeletons, I'm so busy serving all my customers
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nauru is going to be made pretty much uninhabitable in the next century by sea level rises.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:nauru is going to be made pretty much uninhabitable in the next century by sea level rises. yeah, that's why they're building underground idiot 
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turns out it's way easier to build rapture on land and just wait for the sea to rise
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bob dobbs is dead posted:bad news about the purpose of armies, jonny What's the news?
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fermun posted:Home > Military Surplus > good to know the government is actively restocking the nuclear bunker chicken tendy supplies before world war 3 starts
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last i checked they're out of stock, but the same company sells cans of freeze-dried filet mignon
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i don't recall if steve has eaten those
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Midjack posted:okay mr hands that's RADM Hands to you!
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Beeftweeter posted:the blockchain is eternal. you fool. you dope! Honestly that would be a good quest: some old ghoul or something sends you on a quest to fetch a copy of the block chain from some dusty old vault. You don’t know what it is when you get it, but when you bring it back he explains it contains a copy of the block chain and that he’ll pay you back once it gets replicated and adopted again by the wasteland, since he has 10k of coins on it
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such an incredible ideas guy vibe here. we will simply just build an apocalypse proof bunker with all the genetic machinery we need in it which we will get from ??? and then use it to *waves hands* and then we will have the future superhumans!
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They just want their sex cult just like every other doomsday group, no matter how they dress it up in the new-age philosophy du jour
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:such an incredible ideas guy vibe here. we will simply just build an apocalypse proof bunker with all the genetic machinery we need in it which we will get from ??? and then use it to *waves hands* and then we will have the future superhumans!
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seventhieves
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:such an incredible ideas guy vibe here. we will simply just build an apocalypse proof bunker with all the genetic machinery we need in it which we will get from ??? and then use it to *waves hands* and then we will have the future superhumans!
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Jul 22, 2023 14:54
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effective altruism is entirely "what if instead of spending money to help people, we just took it and spent it on things we think are cool?"
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Not a Children posted:They just want their sex cult just like every other doomsday group, no matter how they dress it up in the new-age philosophy du jour the problem is that usually you can’t just get people to invest in your sex cult
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doesn't seem very altruistic nor effective to me, but what do i know
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I also like that they're all obsessed with "longtermism" but not worried about climate change in the least
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haveblue posted:seventhieves lol
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you start with ‘mosquito nets for malaria’ and then like two steps later its boiling the oceans to mulch orphans for profit because you will leave your estate to a foundation whose goals are to set up an ai that will run humanity’s interstellar empire and weighed against untold trillions of lives in the future any present action is irrelevant
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um, ah, excuse me, they're things i have objectively proven are optimally cool by using bayesian reasoning from first principles there's a lot of very sophisticated math going on numbers
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https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/
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It's more stupid than you could possibly imagine
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quote:Why haven't we been destroyed by a power-seeking AGI from elsewhere in the universe?
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there isn't a day i wake up to that I don't think about this
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maybe we have
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tired: Judeo-Christian god was an alien wired: Judeo-Christian god was an alien ai
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It's really weird because even if that's something you want to worry about what's the point of saying "AGI" rather than "aliens" there? How does it make any difference whether the hypothetical intelligent alien entity that's trying to destroy you was artificially created by another hypothetical intelligent alien entity rather than just evolving on its own?
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Buck Turgidson posted:It's more stupid than you could possibly imagine I can imagine scientology, so that's a pretty high bar.
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I guess it makes more sense if you think of effective altruism as a subculture/fandom where AGIs are part of the lore rather than an actual philosophy or whatever though
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leper khan posted:I can imagine scientology, so that's a pretty high bar. while it is weird that there are two entirely different cults based on bad science fiction, the ea folks are in fact stupider.
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mystes posted:It's really weird because even if that's something you want to worry about what's the point of saying "AGI" rather than "aliens" there? How does it make any difference whether the hypothetical intelligent alien entity that's trying to destroy you was artificially created by another hypothetical intelligent alien entity rather than just evolving on its own? why not both. it’s clear contact gave up on trying to prevent us from damaging ourselves and is just curious to see what will happen
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Jul 22, 2023 15:22
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hobbesmaster posted:why not both. it’s clear contact gave up on trying to prevent us from damaging ourselves and is just curious to see what will happen
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a bunch of broken people/minds that can’t handle peacefully enjoying FALGSC on an orbital
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oh was it a Culture reference?
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Yeah. And by the way there is a Banks-authored short story where the Culture contacts Earth, and that's almost what happens. They decide to use us as a control in an experiment to see whether Culture interference is generally a good thing or a bad thing for the civilization in question.
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hobbesmaster posted:why not both. it’s clear contact gave up on trying to prevent us from damaging ourselves and is just curious to see what will happen wasn’t that the outcome of the state of the art? imho worst culture story (and book) by far, it is stupid earth exceptionalism; like there’s multiple species known to culture that genetically engineers a subgroup of their species for torture and mutilation for entertainment and they are shocked and appalled by 80s London so bad they give up on the whole thing. Culture books work as an exaggerated reflection of society and state of the art breaks all that
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and I’m too angry about how bad it is to spoil it
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mystes posted:It's really weird because even if that's something you want to worry about what's the point of saying "AGI" rather than "aliens" there? How does it make any difference whether the hypothetical intelligent alien entity that's trying to destroy you was artificially created by another hypothetical intelligent alien entity rather than just evolving on its own? they're titans of industry that can't create aliens. but they can attempt to create "AGI" and then go "oh jeez creating AGI was inevitable, see? the theories are right, my worldview is confirmed"
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