Yudkowsky's Sequences, at first blush, look like they're useless for anyone who needs to read them. If you need to read them, you can't possibly be literate. Permanent cognitive poverty. Maybe if you squint it's the midwits' guide to peak midwittery.
But wait, they're just lying. Anyone can figure these out in under, generously, five minutes. And did. And that's the purpose of The Sequences.
By pretending the obvious is difficult, it gives them an excuse when they intentionally indulge in Sophistry. "Forgive me Egalitarianism Lord, for I have sinned." They're just weak and fallen vessels who couldn't possibly live up to the lofty standards of *checks notes* not confusing a finger for the moon it's pointing at.
The bargain is: I will let you be a treacherous slime, provided you let me be a treacherous slime, and pay your shekel to the first among equals, who showed us the way, the path, and the light. Many found this to be an attractive bargain. Just, you know, not the kind of bargain you can openly advertise for. Some subtlety is called for (not too much).
Coincidentally I just found out big yud used a japanese phrase, of all things, to allegedly encourage his cult to not be ashamed of pulling ahead.
The japanese. I'm dead. Should have used finnish instead, lel.
What genius could possibly conceive of hiding your success so as to protect it. Truly, only the most astronomically shining stars should show such stupendous skill.
No no this is a genuinely clever exercise in camouflage. It really did make big yud a bunch of money, and I understand there were sex cults too. Yes fat? No problem! We're ~~sapiosexual~~ just like jesus platonically intended uh I mean we're all atheists here. We do everything jesus told us to do, but he didn't like exist or anything, plato was a hack we're trying to bit-for-bit copy the republic coincidentally. So much a weird coincidence.
This whole !!science!! thing made Sophistry very difficult. How are you supposed to pretend to be scientific without, like, actually giving up your experimentally incompatible scams? Without a grant, I mean? Big yud just wanted to help. And get paid. To help and get paid and fuck some whores for free. (posiwid)
What everyone wants, really. You understand.
You did read the sequences, right?
Clever, but, sadly, immediately vincible against anyone of higher IQ, as these things always go. Merely another way for mortals to mort around and divert themselves while they wait for senescence and accumulate suffering.
I mean, do you really think jesus didn't tap magdalene? Really? Tee hee. That's a good one.
She wasn't a prostitute anymore, see, because she didn't take metal in exchange. Totally different.
P.S. "Hey, don't fuck other men." "Oh damn big j, I would never have figured that out if you hadn't told me. Great advice!" "Stealing is wrong. Lying too." "Shit, dropping spicy ones over here!"
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