because like here's the thing you can understand (and criticise! and point out flaws! and call yudkowskyite doomerism profoundly irrational, which i think is accurate and vital at this time!) or you can cringe and lolcow and i sincerely do not believe that you can effectively do both at once

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i also think "these people up to and including important staff at the companies largely running the show in the US are all financially and personally tied to each other in tangled, untrackable, complicated ways, and also are trying to commit collusion in front of G-d and man" is pretty important!

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and the degree to which big yud has gone all-in on "AI is going to kill us all, soon" AND the degree to which the bay area rats spring up little cultlets like there's an underground mycelial network that sprouts occasionally are *both deeply relevant to this analysis!*

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and that, and things LIKE that, are going to get worse and worse and worse, and we are not, in fact, prepared i confidently do not believe that this is going to lead to universal civilisational doom, however, but i do think the next decade is going to be extremely very weird

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"YOU'RE HIRED!" "no not you, the dodo"

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