Former CS and IT major, general lunatic, and dragon
Alephywr
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Well that’s sensible enough, and I can only rebut it, not refute it. My counterargument is basically this:
1. At the speed at which technology is going forward, it seems entirely possible that the opinions of cranks will eventually drive real world actions of some sort, and so engaging with them ahead of those actions might be a good thing.
2. Without airing dirty laundry, it’s impossible to know how prevalent crank-ish ideas are in a community.
That’s fair. I still think the post is relevant though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terasem_Movement
My internet boyfriend. Because he thinks I am philosophically competent and wants me to engage more with others, ostensibly.
The Terasem Movement is a sort of new-agey technophile organization that Yudkowsky once wrote for, I would have thought it would be known here already (and this also sort of answers why you should care about it)
I wrote this post because someone told me to!
I am the legendary dragon Alephwyr, whose name is Alephwyr!
That’s probably true but it still doesn’t explain what happened to me in Europe.