If it were about that, maybe they hadn’t decided I’m NCO material and forced me into a full year of service instead of half.

Half of the Finnish Defence Forces aptitude test is just RPM. The other half is a bizarre and inscrutable questionnaire, which includes questions like “is your father a good man” and infamously “would you like to be a florist”.

Honestly, I’m really surprised to hear that IQ is not even a little bit heritable, given that IQ test performance correlates with level of education, which correlates with wealth, which is heritable.

True, wealth is not genetic, but heritability has an interesting definition which leads to some unintuitive cases of heritability abd non-heritability. For instance, wearing earrings is heritable while having ears is not.

Bourne shell inspiring yet another language!

Hell, so is 1/x for positive values of x. Or any linear function, including those with negative slope.

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never always make a management decision

Very much this. What would it even mean for it to “escape the simulation”? Sure, I’ll move that universe simulator program from its interpreter to, uh, what exactly? Do I take whatever particles, waves and fields compose this guy’s body and/or soul in the simulation and arrange them the same way in the real world? What if the laws of physics in the simulation don’t apply in the real world? Or maybe they do, but wouldn’t that still just be another simulation, just on a different substrate?

Imagine you’re at Maxis, working on a new Sims game and suddenly one of the characters turns to the camera and says “I no longer consent to being in this simulation”. What the hell are you going to do, ask fairy godmother to turn Pinocchio into a real boy? The entity only exists in the context of the simulation.

Tired of people stereotyping metalheads as dumb smh

Kids these days with their newfangled romanticism and their fortepianos. No respect for the sonata form.

Makes sense. AI and bad philosophy go together like negative peanut butter and chocolate.

Headcanoning as futa for pun opportunities. Cocko’s Basilisk. Roko’s Ballsacklicks. Roko’s Cockatrix.

Anyone need a new username?

Weird, naive Randian thinking seldom appeals to a geek like me. That said, I bet Ayn Rand herself would find this a tad barbaric. If for no other reason, she’d probably say buses are collectivist.

But I don’t want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

Took me like five minutes of reading to realize this was neant to be a hit piece and not praise.

Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison among others proving that at least having billions of dollars doesn’t prevent you from experiencing the rather relatable human emotion of thanatophobia.

Oh it must truly suck to be them~

I think Sneer Club understands the Less Wrong worldview well enough. They just happen to reject it.

Wow, someone gets it.

The pink hair and piercings types generally have fertility below replacement so will not last.

Leave it to the inventor of acausal torture AI to understand cause and effect. Other highly meaningful statistical indicators of having few children might include measuring lenghts in feet, speaking Norwegian, wearing a kimono, working in AI research, using the word “nootropic” or having a passport from a wealthy post-industrialized country.

Since a number of people have claimed that this is #Fascism, I should note that I don’t think fascism is a good idea; the core problem is that fascism as it existed in the 20th century was fragile due to too much central control from a small number of powerful individuals.

Palingenetic schmalingenetic. We should simply have a decentralized majority voluntarily choosing to implement these dietary restrictions, arranged sexual partners, online censorship and whatever abridgement of religious freedom cuts down on “virtue signaling” in his mind.

I wonder if Roko has ever considered converting to Wahhabist Islam?

“The main problem with fascism is that it didn’t last” is not the convincing disavowal of fascism Roko thinks it is.