This is the stance of a lot of people when they first learn of or get skeptical about the Lesswrongosphere. Not a stance you can hold for very long when you read more and more of their work with a critical eye.
Or you find another of their blogs where Steve Sailer is a beloved (but sometimes begrudged) regular. Or when you notice that big twitter race and IQ guy and eugenicists started in Rationalism. Or when the EA people themselves admit this is a huge problem. Or... Etc. Drink horse drink!
The one racist rat pet owner is gonna be so mad. 'i might be a nazi, but im not a nerd'.
That seems so impractical, esp as we have (according to them) 2 years left, that they already wanted to do the eugenics and just were looking for a rationalization.
It does, I dont like it personally because of the whole dont compare people you do not like to vermin bit. But it is also a commonly used thing inside the Rationalists community. (I personally also like to capitalize Rationalist when im talking about the lesswrong etc people to make it clear im not talking about normal rationalism).
The way you describe it, Bell bit isnt just smarmy, it is downright conspiratorial.
Sneerclub, forever hated for being right to soon.
We are talking about the subculture here.
Hiring your own 'satanists' to protest your own event is quite embarrassing tbh. (Is that a The Misfits cosplayer? Somebody has not kept up with Danzig latest escapades (he sold a black sun t-shirt apparently)).
Also nazis, famous for not having very big grandiose ideas.
Could be, not sure the science fiction authors thought this much about it. (Or if the thing I was musing about is even real and not just a coincidence that I read a few works in which it is a thing). Certainly seems likely that this sort of science is where the idea came from.
Moravec's Paradox
Had totally forgotten the name of that (Being better at remembering random meme stuff but not names of concepts like this, or a lot of names in general is a curse, also a source of imposter syndrome). But I recall having read the wikipedia page of that before. (Moravec also was the guy who thought of bush robots, wonder if that idea survived the more recent developments of nanotechnology.
Lol you seem really invested in this idea. Seems to be an important part of your identity, so much so it seems to have reduced your critical thinking skills.
Turns out I wasn't trying to get a horse to drink, but a wolf.
(Yes, I intended it as a self-deprecating joke about trying to reach people who can't be reached, and im now turning it into a joke about selfawarewolves. And because I think too highly of my jokes and do not want people to miss my meaning, im also explaining it).
Anyway, odd thing to say about a cult incubator in which the head honcho is pro bombing datacenters.