I’ve had to deal with the stress you are contributing to putting on the broader perception of transhumanism for the weekend, and that is on top of preexisting mental problems. (Whether MIRI/LW is actually representative to this is entirely orthogonal to the point; public perception has and is shifting towards viewing the broader context of futurism as run by neoreactionaries and beige-os with parareligious delusions.)
Of course, that’s no reason to stop anything. People are going to be stressed by things independent of their content.
But you are expecting an entity which you have devoted most of blog to criticizing to be caring enough about your psychological state that they take time out to write header statements for each of your posts?
If you want to stop accusations of lying and bad faith, stop spreading the “LW believes in Roko’s Basilisk” meme, and do something less directly reputation-warfare escalatory, and more productive—like hunting down Nazis and creating alternatives to the current decision-theoretic paradigm. (I don’t think anybody’s going to get that upset over abstract discussions of Newcomb’s Problem. At least, I hope.)
If you want to stop accusations of lying and bad faith, stop spreading the “LW believes in Roko’s Basilisk” meme...
How often and for how long did I spread this, and what do you mean by “spread”?
Imagine yourself in my situation back in 2010: After the leader of a community completely freaked out over a crazy post (calling the author an idiot in all bold and caps etc.) he went on to massively nuke any thread mentioning the topic. In addition there are mentions of people having horrible nightmares over it while others are actively trying to dissuade you from mentioning a thought experiment they believe to be dangerous, in private messages and emails, by referring to the leaders superior insight.
This made a lot of alarm bells ring for me.
But you are expecting an entity which you have devoted most of blog to criticizing to be caring enough about your psychological state that they take time out to write header statements for each of your posts?
I’ve had to deal with the stress you are contributing to putting on the broader perception of transhumanism for the weekend, and that is on top of preexisting mental problems. (Whether MIRI/LW is actually representative to this is entirely orthogonal to the point; public perception has and is shifting towards viewing the broader context of futurism as run by neoreactionaries and beige-os with parareligious delusions.)
Of course, that’s no reason to stop anything. People are going to be stressed by things independent of their content.
But you are expecting an entity which you have devoted most of blog to criticizing to be caring enough about your psychological state that they take time out to write header statements for each of your posts?
If you want to stop accusations of lying and bad faith, stop spreading the “LW believes in Roko’s Basilisk” meme, and do something less directly reputation-warfare escalatory, and more productive—like hunting down Nazis and creating alternatives to the current decision-theoretic paradigm. (I don’t think anybody’s going to get that upset over abstract discussions of Newcomb’s Problem. At least, I hope.)
How often and for how long did I spread this, and what do you mean by “spread”?
Imagine yourself in my situation back in 2010: After the leader of a community completely freaked out over a crazy post (calling the author an idiot in all bold and caps etc.) he went on to massively nuke any thread mentioning the topic. In addition there are mentions of people having horrible nightmares over it while others are actively trying to dissuade you from mentioning a thought experiment they believe to be dangerous, in private messages and emails, by referring to the leaders superior insight.
This made a lot of alarm bells ring for me.
No. I made an unilateral offer.