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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago

Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble

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Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 months ago
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Ice: The Penultimate Frontier — LessWrong
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I argue here that preventing a large iceberg from melting is absurdly cheap per unit area compared to just about any other way of making new land, an…
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    yeah let’s just divert entire global straw output so that Roko can build his libertarian crypto paradise

    also straw is not a waste, wtf is he thinking

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      Maybe he was thinking of straw that has already been through the horse?

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        Ahh, horseshit. It is a key libertarian building block.

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          New form of pykrete made out of manure and ice. Eventually the Icebertarians will get use to the smell (an AI company is also working on a CRISPR fix), and with the problems of excessive manure and thus nitrate in places like the Netherlands, you are paid to take it off their hands! Win win!

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            A Turdburg on a turdberg. It might not be a shining city on a hill, but it might have high albedo.

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              Oh, it would shine. Like shit on a barn door.

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                heh

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            @Soyweiser Why not make pykrete out of neoreactionaries?

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              They’d have to classify a proportion of themselves as subhuman first, and then they could make history’s most literal implementation of the mudsill theory.

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              Time to Cronenberg it up. Anybody want a new appartment in Roko the skyscraper? Long live the new flesh! No pets!

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                All hail the new flesh! No pets!

                I’m ded

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                  Next time I’m first going to look up the quote (which is apparently 'Long live the new flesh!") before posting, but you have immortalized my error. :)

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