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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt 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 havenāt 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 heās a ketamine addict
mostly though theyāre engaging in the traditional rationalist pastime of giving each other anxiety
That āBillionaires are not immune to AGIā 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 āalignmentā implicitely means āalignment to the current extractive capitalist economic structureā. 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. youāve got a community built around a right wing coded topic, using the same sources and with the same delusions as their parent community, but theyāre mixing and matching bits of ideology and cooking up a left wing variant. itās incoherent but that doesnāt 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 thereās 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 isnāt 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 āthey canāt help it, it was the ambienā style people.