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galen · 1704 days ago · link · · parent · post: Roko's Basilisk: The most terrifying thought experiment of all time
Yeah, I read it. It's unnecessarily pesssimistic but also pretty damn funny. Ignore the Donald Trump essay and possibly the TERF one; I think the rest would be right up your alley. There's a little bit of genuine analysis of the alt-right, but mostly it's just pointing out how fucking stupid and inane most of these guys are, and how impossible it is to defeat an ideology that's so fucking stupid. What are you gonna do, argue with them?If one wanted to be snarkily uncharitable--and if it's not clear, this is very much the sort of book that does...