lepidus

Karma: −170

lepidus 12 Jan 2023 22:56 UTC
−40 points
7 ∶ 21
in reply to: Radical Empath Ismam’s comment on: A personal response to Nick Bostrom’s “Apology for an Old Email”
″Or white people.″
Well yes, getting fired and permanently blacklisted is not exactly fun.

lepidus 12 Jan 2023 22:07 UTC
−42 points
17 ∶ 28
on: I Support Bostrom
Thank you Cinera.
I would like to address everyone here who shares this perspective.
I know and you know that you probably can’t do this openly (at least not in your own name), but sending your support to Bostrom privately, and most critically, expressing it unambiguously in small groups where it is safe to do so—that is your duty.
The inquisitors are out for blood and while they will dominate publicly, it is essential that we preserve a space where people understand that others are out there who are not a part of it.
Preserve the potential for honest discourse somewhere, or lose it, forever.

lepidus 12 Jan 2023 21:51 UTC
−40 points
7 ∶ 20
on: CEA statement on Nick Bostrom’s email
There was a time when being a nonbeliever put you at serious risk of loosing everything (in the muslim countries they’ll still kill you for apostasy). So elite groups which understood that the forcefully imposed religious consensus was obviously wrong would instead setup a fake version of Christianity for new recruits, and then once these rose in the ranks tell them “yeah it’s obviously bullshit, congrats for suspecting it… but you are not allowed to say it!”
Of course every once in a while, someone high up goes rogue or forgets the vow of silence, and gets caned. Everyone else at the higher ranks submits the formulaic denunciation, and the lie continues until the next person screws up (or their heresy gets revealed when they are investigated for entirely unrelated things).
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/
It’s not a moral fault to not finds these things out on your own but to join the mob instantly against a titan falls without wondering whether he was in fact expressing the well understood fact, which is also a taboo enforced by complete personal destruction… God, save us from these dim-witted inquisitors, for they know not what they do.
Well, at least now Bostrom will have his name on the same list as James Watson, Francis Kirk and Galileo.

lepidus 12 Jan 2023 21:49 UTC
−54 points
10 ∶ 26
on: A personal response to Nick Bostrom’s “Apology for an Old Email”
There was a time when being a nonbeliever put you at serious risk of loosing everything (in the muslim countries they’ll still kill you for apostasy). So elite groups which understood that the forcefully imposed religious consensus was obviously wrong would instead setup a fake version of Christianity for new recruits, and then once these rose in the ranks tell them “yeah it’s obviously bullshit, congrats for suspecting it… but you are not allowed to say it!”
Of course every once in a while, someone high up goes rogue or forgets the vow of silence, and gets caned. Everyone else at the higher ranks submits the formulaic denunciation, and the lie continues until the next person screws up (or their heresy gets revealed when they are investigated for entirely unrelated things).
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/
It’s not a moral fault to not finds these things out on your own but to join the mob instantly against a titan without wondering whether he was in fact expressing the well understood fact, which is also a taboo enforced by complete personal destruction… God, save us from these dim-witted inquisitors, for they know not what they do.
Well, at least now Bostrom will have his name on the same list as James Watson, Francis Kirk and Galileo.