Good thing there are very prominent in-group approved channels to rid you of your money ethically and effectively.

Well, at least they got to find out exactly how far extreme mental discipline (and space psychedelics) could take you. You got mentats, truth sayers, suk doctors and so on and so forth. Not that the vast majority of the population ever got to see any benefit from them, because hey, feudalism, and they themselves were basically luxury slaves to the Great Houses, but it’s not nothing I guess.

I feel this used to get linked a lot when yud came up.

Please don’t bother with the KJA/BH Dune books, they are incredibly shit. It’s basically Dune fanfiction where the gimmick is everyone is brain damaged, especially the authors.

And even if you are into that, if you read the prequels first they will retroactively ruin the original books by giving up plot reveals for fanservice, or because they don’t understand that character development is a thing, so you get people behaving like a lot of things that don’t happen for several books are a given.

KJA is such a hack’s hack it’s unbelievable that he’s flown under the radar the way he has, probably because he’s made a career out of leeching on existing ips, before Dune it was starwars, x-files and stracraft, at least.

He sucks, and very consistently so. People should be writing Renowned author Dan Brown pieces about him.

The author certainly wants you to know that finding yourself as the head of a revolutionary movement means very little with regards to your abilities to steer it, but I don’t remember.

That he cites as if it were a philosophy paper, to non-rationalists.

Yep, from what I can tell second hand dath ilan world building definitely skews towards it doesn’t count as totalitarianism if the enforced orthodoxy is in line with my Obviously Objectively Correct and Overdetermined opinions.

I can smell the ‘rape (play) is the best kind of sex actually’ from over here.

OG Dune actually had some complex and layered stuff to say about AI before the background lore was retconned to dollar store WH40K by the current handlers of the IP.

There was no superintelligence, thinking machines were gatekept by specialists who formed entrenched elites, overreliance to them was causing widespread intellectual stagnation, and people were becoming content with letting unknowable algorithms decide on matters of life and death.

The Butlerian Jihad was first and foremost a cultural revolution.

I’m still not sure if they actually grasp the totalitarian implications of going ham on tech companies and research this way. He sure doesn’t get called out about his ‘solutions’ implying that some sort of world government has to happen that will also crown him Grand Central Planner of All Technology.

It’s possible they just believe the eight [specific consumer electronic goods] per household is doable, and at worst equally authoritarian with the tenured elites snubbing their noses at HBD research.

If you’re having to hide your AIs in faraday cages in case they get uppity, why are you even doing this, you are already way past the point of diminishing returns. There is no use case for keeping around an AI that actively doesn’t want anything to do with you, at that point either you consider that part of the tech tree a dead end or you start some sort of digital personhood conversation.

That’s why Yud (and anthropic) is so big on AIs deceiving you about their ‘real’ capabilities. For all of MIRI’s talk about the robopocalypse being a foregone conclusion, the path to get there sure is narrow and contrived, even on their own terms.

Who needs time travel when you have Timeless Updateless Functional Decision Theory, Yud’s magnum opus and an arcane attempt at a game theoretic framework that boasts 100% success at preventing blackmail from pandimensional superintelligent entities that exist now in the future.

It for sure helped the Zizians become well integrated members of society (warning: lesswrong link).

I think it’s more like you’ll have a rat commissar deciding which papers get published and which get memory-holed while diverting funds from cancer research and epidemiology to research on which designer mouth bacteria can boost their intern’s polygenic score by 0.023%

The point is that you are still calling it out as racism, a term racists very much don’t like. Meaning, the “racism” is the important part in “scientific racism”, because it unequivocally tells us that the science in question is shit.

The actual euphemism for sciency racism is human biodiversity studies.

“not on squeaking terms”

by the way I first saw this in the stubsuck

This just comes off as your extended justification about not liking to think about things too hard.

Genetic engineering and/or eugenics is the long term solution. Short-term you are supposed to ban GPU sales, bomb non-complying datacenters and have all the important countries sign an AI non-proliferation treaty that will almost certainly involve handing over the reins of human scientific progress to rationalist approved committees.

Yud seems explicit that the point of all this is to buy enough time to create our metahuman overlords.

Honestly, it gets dumber. In rat lore the AGI escaping restraints and self improving unto godhood is considered a foregone conclusion, the genetically augmented smartbrains are supposed to solve human ethics before that has a chance to happen so we can hardcode a don’t-kill-all-humans ethics module to the superintelligence ancestor.

This is usually referred to as producing an aligned AI.

When this was posted to the curatedtumbler subreddit so many people thought it calling out racist pet rat owners.

Apparently genetically engineering ~300 IQ people (or breeding them, if you have time) is the consensus solution on how to subvert the acausal robot god, or at least the best the vast combined intellects of siskind and yud have managed to come up with.

So, using your influence to gradually stretch the overton window to include neonazis and all manner of caliper wielding lunatics in the hope that eugenics and human experimentation become cool again seems like a no-brainer, especially if you are on enough uppers to kill a family of domesticated raccoons at all times.

On a completely unrelated note, adderall abuse can cause cardiovascular damage, including heart issues or stroke, but also mental health conditions like psychosis, depression, anxiety and more.