Fixed. Thank you.

I hadn’t even been aware of this community until someone in FuckAI said I should x-post here. It’s pretty cool. I’m excited this place exists. :)

After thinking a bit more, I do still think there’s value in memetic inoculation. By presenting the idea as absurd when viewed outside of the context of Rationalism, it may decrease transmission of the constellation of ideas that make it seem to make sense.

This becomes the difference between prevention (this essay) and treatment (some future essay working from within the paradigm).

Rationalism is as though someone took the care and detail of a deep dive into Warhammer 40k or DnD lore, and made a 5k year backstory for Twilight. It comes across as philosophy by people who refused to study philosophy. The metaphysics are basically the philosophical equivalent of The Shaggs. It’s like rediscovering shitty neoliberalism from first principles.

It’s so full of absurd logical jumps. From the outside, Roko’s Basilisk is just absurd. Anyone who isn’t already deep in the cult can almost immediately realize it’s extremely silly. The fact that it’s silly makes it not an info hazard to anyone who isn’t in the cult. It’s only after making so many logical leaps and assumptions, walking into this absolutely absurd corner, that it can possibly make sense. Unfortunately, it’s exactly people in this coner who need help out.

So I do think it’s important to actually dismantle, I just hate it so much. I don’t have enough connection to this to have the patience to dive deeper. Thanks for putting in the time, and I do hope you write it. I do think there exists a Galileo’s Basilisk. I also think it’s important to destroy the philosophical foundations of Rationalism, but it’s so incredibly asinine it’s hard to even track.

For the rest of us, it’s probably just easier to sink the project while laughing at the whole thing than try to get our heads into it enough to get anyone out. But I hope someone like you does spend the time to destroy it.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Awesome, thank you for the typo heads up also. Feedback is always welcome. Between ADHD and sleep deprivation, it’s a real challenge to catch everything.

Totally, but “abolishing parking lots” just means they don’t get used for cars anymore. I am curious what we could use them for though.

Could we just abolish parking lots?

If you ever drive through rural America, you’ll usually at least see one or two crosses, often on telephone poles, on rural roads. People, often teenagers, die pretty regularly in rural America because of drunk driving.

Some people like it. Some people are just numb to it. It’s just insane to expect people not to when bars are the only social space in a lot of these towns, and those bars are not accessible by anything but car. There is no such thing as a taxi for most of the US (space wise, not population wise).