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OpenAI employee Tarun Gogineni aka "roon" just openly worshipping death and human enslavement to the god-computer he believes he's creating. your IPO just got pushed back bro! it's all falling apart! your nihilism was pointless and evil and you'll be hated for the rest of your days!

Nullstring 🏴‍☠️1d ago

@jplebreton lmfao these dudes are genuinely suffering from psychosis. objectively, this technology is not AI or even close... the way they are other people are acting about it hahahahahahaha its like watching a bizarre cult take over the town hahahahahahahaha

were all gonna fucking die as a result of giving these cooked brain mental patients everyone's money.

Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen 1d ago

@jplebreton "if we let the technology evolve naturally" somehow sums up just how completely and thoroughly fucked the techbro understanding of evolution is

artemist 1d ago

@jplebreton applying to work at openai and when asked why i want to work there say, completely deadpan, "roko's basikisk"

Retrofan 64 21h ago

@artemist @jplebreton then wink and slip them a business card with #fnord on it.

CynAq🤘1d ago

@jplebreton I think that guy made his fetish his whole personality

eestileib (she/hers)9h ago

@CynAq @jplebreton

If he wants to be a pet, there are many people out there who would be happy to reduce his light cone, no datacenter needed.

The Orange Theme 1d ago

@jplebreton These men have simultaneously had too much and not enough drugs...

m_on_stair 23h ago

@jplebreton are you high? he is obviously ironic

@m i recommend cross referencing that with everything he's ever said publicly

@jplebreton @m Yup, this. Go look into the history of the TESCREAL cluster, especially the Rationalist/transhumanist/singulatarian katamari in from the late 00s - that’s where a lot of this cosmological consciousness lightcone shit bred popularity (and the current set of dipshits are directly culturally influenced by the LW cluster)

“$x is just being ironic” is a dangerously incorrect lens by which to view ‘em

Amethyst 🌸23h ago

@jplebreton wtaf does “curtailed light cone” even mean, and how could a computer program ever “evolve naturally” when they literally wouldn’t exist in this world without our express efforts to build sustain them? 🤪🤬

@amethyst @jplebreton "curtailed lightcone" is one of those things that sounds really smart if you're an incredibly dumb guy

Mike Pirnat 23h ago

@SnoopJ @amethyst @jplebreton It would make a decent band name, though.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌22h ago

@SnoopJ @amethyst @jplebreton Sounds like someone who thinks Charles Stross writes nonfiction. 😆

@SnoopJ @amethyst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone yeah it's a term relevant to astronomical time scales that the "light of consciousness" fashtech bros throw around because it sounds lofty and cool and positions what humanity is doing right now as the odd momentary startup sequence for an enduring galactic consciousness. because they explicitly view all human life as essentially worthless and meaningless outside that purpose.

Light cone - Wikipedia

@SnoopJ @amethyst (obviously there is a schism between the literal "light of consciousness" rhetoric camp, eg musk and people like him who don't want to die they want to live forever in robot bodies, and guys like roon who have essentially galaxy brained themselves into being pro human extinction because they care so much about their precious tech shit that is going to crater the global economy in the next 12 months. the common thread is that capitalism is a death cult!)

@jplebreton @SnoopJ @amethyst reading this is really, genuinely sad. These guys need a therapist to process their dysphoria, not a trillion dollars to build datacenters. Like they’re literally just reciting the diagnostic criteria for cotard’s delusion and thinking they are inventing a new metaphysics. You’re just sick, man! Get help!

@jplebreton @SnoopJ @amethyst as a middle-aged man with an overflowing bucket of neuroses myself I feel a painful sympathy here but my coping mechanisms aren’t so maladaptive that they are going to cause a global ELE

@glyph @SnoopJ @amethyst there's a totally-sincere/ironically-detached-above-it-all superposition kind of posture that these guys strike where they often don't sound like they even fully believe their own schtick, but also are fully committed to it and start talking like Sephiroth when things are going particularly well or poorly for them. i don't think there's anything medical about it, they've just followed the contours of the dominant ideology down into a particularly perverse asymptote.

:: Asta ::17h ago

@glyph @SnoopJ @jplebreton @amethyst well, I certainly just learned something new.

hmmmm, maybe it's like we shouldn't just allow random individuals to have the power to break the planet...

@glyph @jplebreton @amethyst one of the things that makes me the most frustrated is that they aren't even wrong about an emergent species which might (briefly and violently, if so) outcompete humanity

that's what megacorps are!

@SnoopJ @glyph @amethyst "`AI risk` is just how a lot of capitalists confront their anxieties and suppressed moral horror at the consequences of their chosen ideology" [taps the sign]

@jplebreton @amethyst a pathological read is that these guys are so up their own asses that they truly believe they can defy special relativity and modify their light-cone

but that would be giving them too much credit for having understood the term to begin with

@jplebreton @amethyst a much more fitting term here would be "worldline" but it's not as well-known of a term in the popsci these guys get their misunderstandings from

@jplebreton I am the first to be against psychiatrization and the weaponisation of mental health, but these motherfuckers should be put in a Nineteenth-Century madhouse.

@Illuminatus to be serious, they need to be subject to struggle sessions not incarcerated. they are mentally healthy people acting rationally in a system with bone-deep ideological incentives for cruelty, hatred, greed, eugenicist racism, etc.

@jplebreton Yes, that's the fucking case: all of the "TESCREAL bullshit" is just a scaffolding for a bunch of motherfuckers to build justifications for being complete arseholes. Robespierre wouldn't even have batted an eye before giving them all the shave they deserve.

Retrofan 64 21h ago

@jplebreton that last line is the dumbest bit of near-word salad I've read in a really long time...

...and I used to work at a company that sold global AI hosting/infrastructure.

klausfiend 19h ago

@jplebreton please promise me I can leave this planet if people like him take it over

@jplebreton This thinking has been around for a while. In the early 2000s a professor showed us a recording of an AI and religion conference. I thought these people must have had their heads dunked in the toilet one too many times to have developed such a universal disdain for humanity.

eestileib (she/hers)9h ago

I can't believe these people are having this conversation in public and there is nobody in their life who can say "I'm worried about you and I think you need to see a psychiatrist".