really: https://archive.ph/p0jPI

Roko’s twitter is an absolutely reliable guide to how recently a woman with dyed hair and facial piercings kicked him in the nuts again

  •  bitofhope   ( @bitofhope@awful.systems ) English
    9•1 year ago

    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.

    •  self   ( @self@awful.systems ) English
      5•1 year ago

      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.

      the decentralized bit is almost certainly in the same way techfash projects like Urbit and ethereum advertise themselves as decentralized: the founders have an irrevocable majority, are able to retain control over the whole thing via dishonest means regardless (see the weaponization of open source that’s a techfash cornerstone), and there’s never a continuity plan in case that majority dies or otherwise loses control. Roko’s proposing a form of fascism that’s laundered in a similar way

        •  self   ( @self@awful.systems ) English
          2•1 year ago

          yep! there’s a little bit more detail in A Brief Primer on Technofascism, and the section where I describe the weaponization of open source is going to expand quite a bit with several more examples by the second draft of that post

          as far as I know the term “weaponization of open source” is original, but it describes a pattern that goes back many years and seems to be getting more frequent as some corporations (which were wrongly seen as being good faith participants in the commons and given an outsized amount of control) get more comfortable with openly using techfash methods

    •  maol   ( @maol@awful.systems ) English
      3•1 year ago

      So…the main problem with fascism is that it didn’t have enough control over people’s minds, bodies and actions??? is this guy a spokesman for the hive mind or something