On meta-level, I find it somewhat ironical that LW community, as well as EY, who usually seem to disapprove of oversensitivity displayed by tumblr’s social justice community, seem also deeply offended by prejudice against them and a joke that originates from this prejudice. On object-level, the joke Randall makes would have been rather benign and funny (besides, I’m willing to exercise the though that mocking Roko’s Basilisk could be used as a strategy against it), if not for the possibility that many people could take it seriously, especially given the actual existing attacks on LW from Rational Wiki. But going back to meta-level, this is exactly what tumblr folks often complain about: what you say and do may not be terrible per se, but it could invoke and support the actual terrible things.
On object-level, I don’t want people to have misconceptions about AGI. On meta-level, I don’t want to be a stereotypical oversensitive activist, that everyone else believes is crazy and obnoxious.
On meta-level, I find it somewhat ironical that LW community, as well as EY, who usually seem to disapprove of oversensitivity displayed by tumblr’s social justice community, seem also deeply offended by prejudice against them and a joke that originates from this prejudice.
Eh, I’m not sure I agree with the first claim. Yes, some people here are touchy, especially about this issue, but many of us are not touchy about this issue (or in general), and to claim that the LW community is touchy seems like an overgeneralization, and I think LWers typically disapprove of the process of overgeneralization, which can lead to conflicts with various social justice claims and narratives.
On meta-level, I find it somewhat ironical that LW community, as well as EY, who usually seem to disapprove of oversensitivity displayed by tumblr’s social justice community, seem also deeply offended by prejudice against them and a joke that originates from this prejudice. On object-level, the joke Randall makes would have been rather benign and funny (besides, I’m willing to exercise the though that mocking Roko’s Basilisk could be used as a strategy against it), if not for the possibility that many people could take it seriously, especially given the actual existing attacks on LW from Rational Wiki. But going back to meta-level, this is exactly what tumblr folks often complain about: what you say and do may not be terrible per se, but it could invoke and support the actual terrible things.
On object-level, I don’t want people to have misconceptions about AGI. On meta-level, I don’t want to be a stereotypical oversensitive activist, that everyone else believes is crazy and obnoxious.
Eh, I’m not sure I agree with the first claim. Yes, some people here are touchy, especially about this issue, but many of us are not touchy about this issue (or in general), and to claim that the LW community is touchy seems like an overgeneralization, and I think LWers typically disapprove of the process of overgeneralization, which can lead to conflicts with various social justice claims and narratives.
People involved in social justice movements are also mostly not touchy, but still it’s the touchy ones that people notice on Tumblr.