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Weird how these Yud cultists all end up turning to fascism
Only the famous ones, really.
We have more than a few that turned to socialism, especially after Anissimov went fash and the “Democratic Transhumanist Association/H+” proved to be neolib goons looking for an academic sinecure.
But there were always fash in the Transhumanist movement. The open ones got pushed out briefly in the mid 90s but the Extropians were libertarians just waiting for Nick Land to give them an excuse to put on the jackboot.
The Roko’s Basilisk thing is someone who’s never taken a philosophy course but had just smoked weed for the first time would come up with
Hell/Heaven = old-fashioned Basilisk to make people behave
looks at Pascal’s Wager
“Wow this is just like the thing I thought of!”
it’s pretty wild how the internet has created the opportunity for people to share ideas/images/sounds globally, at near the speed of light, without a moment’s reflection.
and some people do this with it, instead of doing something funny like hooting or showing a monkey farting.
