The LW/CFAR/MIRI crowd has gone full r-slur. Novels are typed, but nothing is said.

I hadn't even really started the article (I got as far as the reference to the previous article) @my_wifes_peepee

These Sequences contained many ideas that I had developed or discovered independently, such as functionalist theory of mind, the idea that Solomonoff Induction was a formalization of inductive epistemology, and the idea that one-boxing in Newcomb's problem is more rational than two-boxing. The scene attracted thoughtful people who cared about getting the right answer on abstract problems like this, making for very interesting conversations.

Wow. Just wow. You can see how the narcissism forms. "The right answer." "Discovered independently."

I believed that I was intrinsically evil, had destroyed significant parts of the world with my demonic powers, and was in a heck of my own creation. I was catatonic for multiple days, afraid that by moving I would cause harm to those around me

Yeah see mind magic will frick you up.

The decision theory research I had done came to life, as I thought about the game theory of submitting to a threat of a gun, in relation to how different decision theories respond to extortion.

Ask yourself this, these are people who believe that their leader is on the crux of history and anything which gets in that leader's way, by affecting his reputation, could truly be a threat to the salvation of all humanity.

This is how crazy these people are, by their own admission. Not the widespread casual SFBA Rationalist. But the people in the inner circle of the cult.

They are living in their own action drama where they're on the critical path of history. There's nothing they won't do.

While the mental subprocess implantation hypothesis is somewhat strange

tell me you've never read a psych 101 textbook without telling me you haven't read a psych 101 textbook. The power of suggestion is extremely strong in human beings. Hypnosis is real enough.

this plan would need to "backchain" from a state of no AI risk and may, for example, say that we must create a human emulation using nanotechnology that is designed by a "genie" AI,

THEY'RE LITERALLY TRYING TO BUILD GOD THEY JUST AREN'T SMART ENOUGH TO REALIZE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO

Godawful morons man.

No one there, as far as I know, considered Kant worth learning from enough to actually read the Critique of Pure Reason in the course of their research; I only did so years later

AHAHAHA SEE? I TOLD YOU: THESE PEOPLE DON'T READ BOOKS BECAUSE THEIR EDUCATION HAPPENED ONLINE IN ESSAYS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO REFUSED TO GO TO COLLEGE.

IT IS TERRIFYING

GOD HAS ALLOWED THIS MONSTROSITY TO ABIDE FOR DECADES

TRULY GOD IS GREAT

This power dynamic is also present in normal therapy, although the profession has norms such as only getting therapy from strangers, which change the situation.

WE MUST RECONSTRUCT THE APPARATUS OF THE STATE FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES