You basically have to believe in certain Rationalist theories of decision making that allow entities that don't exist yet to effectively threaten people in the past, AND believe that a simulation of you IS you if it's perfect enough. It only hooks people that are already up to their necks in the Rationalist swamp.
And that's literally dementia, insanity, being too crazy to function in a normal world. It is the opposite of actual rationality, whatever these capital R "Rationalist" Retards claim to think. It's literally unintelligible to a functioning mind.
The absolute freaking out about a kind of dumb thought experiment like the Basilisk shows these weirdoes are in a cult. They may not be in a cult as bad and as murderous as the Ziz troon cult, but they are in a cult group that will continue to spawn absolute nutjobbery like this.
It's based on game theory concepts; I don't know exactly all the terminology for this, but it grows out of the idea of playing reciprocal "games" (in the game theory sense, it's hard to find the right layman's term for this, like bargaining, but not quite) in which both parties have agency and make decisions and respond to each others decisions, but because both are modeling the minds of the other they can interact asynchronously in time.
I'm actually aware of that, but this does not fit anything remotely comporting with actual game theory much less the John Forbes Nash equilibrium concepts. It's pure nut shit. It isn't based on math, or actual game theory, it's based on the hallucinations of delusional lunatics who understand neither.
You basically have to believe in certain Rationalist theories of decision making that allow entities that don't exist yet to effectively threaten people in the past, AND believe that a simulation of you IS you if it's perfect enough. It only hooks people that are already up to their necks in the Rationalist swamp.
And that's literally dementia, insanity, being too crazy to function in a normal world. It is the opposite of actual rationality, whatever these capital R "Rationalist" Retards claim to think. It's literally unintelligible to a functioning mind.
The absolute freaking out about a kind of dumb thought experiment like the Basilisk shows these weirdoes are in a cult. They may not be in a cult as bad and as murderous as the Ziz troon cult, but they are in a cult group that will continue to spawn absolute nutjobbery like this.
I think you're correct on that last point as well, particularly with the Aum comparison.
Not really. As absolutely insane as AUM was, they could recruit people from top-tier science institutions who could actually synthesize things like sarin. This group is absolute morons jerking off to Harry Potter fanfic.
