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Don’t visit LessWrong.com anytime soon then. They love this sort of thing. To the point of appearing cult like, trying to convince people with far less money th
by ShamelessC 3y ago
Don’t visit LessWrong.com anytime soon then. They love this sort of thing. To the point of appearing cult like, trying to convince people with far less money than them to invest in it as a sort of obviously rational “life insurance policy”. The idea that they could ever be brought back from the dead is a fantasy, supported in their minds by the idea that the sciences will figure it out eventually.
That of course ignores basic limits imposed by biological, sociological and economic systems. Not to mention that the promise of eternal life is common among cult ideologies.
This is apparently business as usual for ultra wealthy technocrats who don’t have any actual contributions whatsoever but need to feel like a revolutionary. Or at least for Eliezer Yudkowsky. That and AI doomerism based on similarly shoddy philosophical arguments.