I mean I’m more than happy to extend grace to randos, but if you’re doing journalism, come on. He’s not just a guy with opinions! He’s a leading far right intellectual!

His Wikipedia intro tells you more than enough with no “allegedly” in sight.

Urbit’s original creator, Curtis Yarvin, has reportedly espoused some extreme beliefs

bro why do you write like this

Though note that it’s a weird curriculum in a few different directions, rather than being uniformly right-wing—e.g. it has some Lacan-inspired stuff, some hippie-inspired stuff on beliefs as emotional strategies, a bunch of rationalist writing, etc.

Ah, got it. It’s not all right wing, there’s also stupid cryptofascist shitheadery.

Um, okay, I know coiners have no shortage of incompetence but this bug sounds an awful lot like malice.

(there’s actually one other dynamic, in which they all know someone will lose, and are just hoping it isn’t them, but that’s another post)

Uh huh.

“Every time that humanity has traded off its liberty for safety, it’s been a long-term net loss”

oh has it now. the spirit of humanity’s been in decline since we’ve eroded workers’ freedom to breathe that good asbestos air and lose their hand in the hand mauling machine, yeah?

Jesus fucking christ none of these people should be having sex

least egotistical lesswronger

“libertarian” outside of a US context is a perfectly valid word to use to describe “non-authoritarian” or anarchist left ideologies, e.g. libertarian communism or “libcom”

i suppose you’d say “left-libertarian” if the meaning is ambiguous, but here it should be implied by “socialism”

oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it’d have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don’t worry about all the private information we’re leaking!

best bit

also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour

amazing

yeah if anything this is making yud look good T_T amazing stuff

So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.

Apologies for radical feministing but “biological sex” is also a constructed category! It’s useful shorthand for quick categorising a bunch of related traits if you’re doing biology, but it does not meaningfully exist on an individual scale. There is no more reason to divide humanity on the basis of sex than on the basis of hair colour.

Isn’t it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it’s thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?

HN:

The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?

tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.

I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”

1. are entirely missing the point of thought experiments,
2. why the fuck would you comply with such a fucked up scenario in real life lmao you worm

yeah he rules

Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.

Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).

yesss yesss lesswrong people’s tribunals and struggle sessions let’s gooooooooo