Please get over yourself. Until you come to grips with the fact that nothing you could possibly do in this life is going to make the slightest bit of difference to life, the multiverse or the price of a paperclip in the Bootes Void, you will be just another potential true believer looking for a delusional crusade. Yours seems to be a common description of people who frequent this place: high IQ lost souls looking for religion, and attempting to use rationality for that purpose. If you aren’t smart enough to deconstruct the LessWrong agenda and are simply looking to be told what to do with your mind, I can point to any number of cults which should be more fun and interesting than what Yudkowsky and friends are offering.
To name one example, my latest cult, orderoftheblacksun.com, intends to take over the world, bring about the apocalypse, reinstitute human sacrifice, sail into the singularity at the center of our galaxy and reduce the universe to paperclips, among other fun and challenging activities. Our ultimate aim is to destroy this vile universe out of spite and sheer boredom. OBS is founded on the idea that humans are born nihilists for whom the universe is a giant baby rattle, and anything beyond that is arbitrary conditioning which should be removed.
At some point I’m sure you will realize that the attempt by rationalists to create an AI god and reduce human life to an exercise in probability is as absurd, delusional and futile as any other religious enterprise. Better sooner rather than later, imo. Good luck.
Please get over yourself. Until you come to grips with the fact that nothing you could possibly do in this life is going to make the slightest bit of difference to life, the multiverse or the price of a paperclip in the Bootes Void, you will be just another potential true believer looking for a delusional crusade. Yours seems to be a common description of people who frequent this place: high IQ lost souls looking for religion, and attempting to use rationality for that purpose. If you aren’t smart enough to deconstruct the LessWrong agenda and are simply looking to be told what to do with your mind, I can point to any number of cults which should be more fun and interesting than what Yudkowsky and friends are offering.
To name one example, my latest cult, orderoftheblacksun.com, intends to take over the world, bring about the apocalypse, reinstitute human sacrifice, sail into the singularity at the center of our galaxy and reduce the universe to paperclips, among other fun and challenging activities. Our ultimate aim is to destroy this vile universe out of spite and sheer boredom. OBS is founded on the idea that humans are born nihilists for whom the universe is a giant baby rattle, and anything beyond that is arbitrary conditioning which should be removed.
At some point I’m sure you will realize that the attempt by rationalists to create an AI god and reduce human life to an exercise in probability is as absurd, delusional and futile as any other religious enterprise. Better sooner rather than later, imo. Good luck.