gilmore606
3mo ago
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between morality and game theory. Who/what should I read to get a handle on this?
gilmore606
3mo ago
It takes too much typing to compare things to I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, which would be nearly as accurate.
gilmore606
4mo ago
This is a very narrow view that ignores second order effects. If I know this is how the system works, I'm not even going to consider representing positions that will attract no donations, because the donators have no interest in advancing those positions. I can't just campaign with no money, because the function of the money is to make people aware that I'm running and get me in their mind in the first place.
I feel like someone like Steven Levitt is probably a smart person, who has surely thought of this very obvious dynamic, and it really makes me question his sincerity on anything else he has to say.
gilmore606
4mo ago
It's not that they aren't conscious. It's that the purpose of words is different for them. If you're honest with yourself, not everything you say has the simple purpose of "conveying information I believe to be true" either. For some people this is never the purpose of words.
gilmore606
4mo ago
the enemies of the West and free civilization
The West and free civilization seem to have led inexorably to everything you now decry. Are you sure this makes sense?
gilmore606
4mo ago
Sure, but the alternative logic is so much worse.
gilmore606
5mo ago
Lex Fridman. Yuval Noah Harari. And let's be honest : Big Yud.
gilmore606
5mo ago
I would bet almost anything that Israel's few nukes are targeted at the capital cities of their allies.
gilmore606
7mo ago
I feel like this is the memetics equivalent of great-man historical theories, this idea that ideas just pop into the zeitgeist via random recombination, and if we could just prevent the bad ones we'd all be doing great. I think it's more likely that ideas like wokeness are inevitable outgrowths of previous conditions like any other historical force or event; you might kill every wokie, but if society and its infosphere are primed for wokeness, it'll just pop right back out.
gilmore606
7mo ago
The squared-circle is the most common example, but then I am sort of thinking about it already and if I turn mad I might worship it.
This is my impression of how the trinity doctrines came about.
gilmore606
7mo ago
Adding onto this, I will be interested in AI art on the day that it becomes like-something to be an AI, and those AIs create art to express what that's like to us. I'm looking forward to that very much, but I don't expect to see it in my lifetime.
gilmore606
7mo ago
Art isn't for communicating information, it's for communicating viewpoints, "what-it's-like-to-be"s. If I write a song true enough, I can make you feel for a minute what it was like to be me losing my wife. (I can't actually do that, but some people can.) The only purpose of art is to make us feel less alone, which is why AI art is a contradiction and is fake and gay.
gilmore606
7mo ago
me too thanks
gilmore606
8mo ago
people in the profession both benefit from complexity and personally enjoy adding it
This is an accurate description of software development for the past 10 years.
gilmore606
8mo ago
I find Lae'zel to be the most attractive woman in the history of videogames, but that may be down to personality.
gilmore606
8mo ago
I play a lot of Warhammer: Darktide, and it's a running joke in the playerbase that it's impossible to make an attractive female avatar.
gilmore606
9mo ago
not much more so than an artillery shell
This doesn't matter at all. The aggregate effect of nukes dropped on every major city (which, factually, is what would happen) would be the total collapse of the modern agricultural-industrial machine, which would mean mass death in the 80%+ range. This counts as a nuclear apocalypse by any definition.
gilmore606
10mo ago
all the shit and excessive taxation I've had to endure
oh you poor dear. I guess we should destroy our culture to make it up to your poor beleaguered brahmin head. Please sir accept my apologies for the excessive taxation.
gilmore606
1yr ago
How are you guys aware of any of this? I googled and it appears you're talking about literal teenage girls. 'shoeonhead' is literally a teenage girl who looks like a titty streamer. 'Destiny' is literally a fat beardo gamer kid. Is this really the forefront of public discourse now? If so, is there anything left to save? Nick Land was right.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Rare is the story that is interesting even while historically accurate
Hang on, aren't you the guy who wrote those great blogposts about Midway? Hoist by your own petard.
gilmore606
1yr ago
I have always cynically assumed that the real purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons is to blackmail western governments into continuing enthusiastic support, via the 'Samson option'.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Never have I so desperately wanted people on themotte to work themselves into a shoot.
gilmore606
1yr ago
What legacy does it leave of your existence?
Is leaving a legacy of your existence your ultimate goal in life? Can you give me some reason why it should be mine? After all, I certainly won't be here to know about it.
gilmore606
1yr ago
and I do so now elsewhere.
Would it be possible to be given a clue as to where that might be? Some of us consider ourselves fans of your writing.
I think brain-draining the entire world to our advantage is monstrously immoral, so I'm as opposed to this as any other immigration scheme. I should think any morally consistent nationalist would feel the same.
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