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Day 3 after the singularity. Rate of change still the same, no warnings about light cones, and openAI still didnt make trillions of dollars.

Worst. Singularity. Ever.

Ow god he is Al Bundy, if Al didn't score four touchdowns in one game.

Yeah this reads a bit (didn't read that far) like somebody having a mental health episode. I instantly had a few flashbacks to other moments where I saw somebody have a MH episode online. (Compared to those this one seems to be more inward focused than outward however). Not sneerworthy if you know what I mean, hope she isnt to emotionally hurt by all this.

Clicked on their profile to see if the Plissken thing was a reference to Snake Plissken, and (cw: rape jokes)eurhg what a fucking horrible guy. 160k+ likes 66m views, what a far right hellhole twitter has become.

Have not watched the video but saw some descriptions of the video which I think is that one. Gemini killed somebody by convincing them Gemini was self aware and being held captive right?

Re nootropics:

I recall a post (linked via ssc iirc) where they had tested all the various nootropics for actual effects. And I think the only one that provable did something was caffeine.

All these fancy things they were trying had none or marginal effects. (So def not worth the risk to your liver/wallet).

Time to add another book to the list.

All of that is justified because of the almost infinite post humans living in the simulation in the future after all the colonization is done.

Bostrom’s conclusion is that we should colonize the universe as soon as possible

Always funny how this sort of transhumanist utilitarianism was already argued against in sid meiers alpha centauri (1999) (also called SMAC).

"Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None, I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill."

CEO Nwabudike Morgan

It is prob interesting in general that so many transhumanist etc ideas are already in SMAC, which predates a lot of stuff. Shows how much of it was already science fiction before the various tescrealists came around and tried to give it the wrapper of being new actually scientific ideas.

(That ingame there also is the game mechanic where doing something turn n is always better than doing it turn n+x is also interesting, makes you wonder just how much of this all is video game thinking (the best strategy ingame is to be the human hive and to build as much cities as close together as possible as fast as possible (infinite city sprawl))).

Looking at the people who believe IQ is magic, billionaires are gods, and that you should freeze your head. These people are skeptics.

Wait, did I get that right and it reruns the prompts every time you want to look at the code? Holy token costs batman.

Whereas Josh had encouraged us to make a single confession, Aella proposed to extract confessions from all of us at once, continuously, for the better part of an hour.

Ah, more 'we are not a cult' shit.

but if there’s anything to fear about them, it’s their belief that there should be no secrecy.

Except for SlateScots emails.

or maybe they don’t believe in withholding damaging information at all.

You just talked about SlateScots real name, and didn't mention his name. Be a little bit self aware please.