2026-07-27
I believe in the power of incredible amounts of violence
Disclaimer
- personal
- target audience - strictly myself
- This is a rant post.
Main
- Twist the knife where it hurts.
- I wish people understood the amount of grief I feel, that we cannot just kill everyone building ASI and fix the problem this way. If everyone building ASI was actually mass murdered and the AI race stopped as a result, I would take an entire year off of my life just to rejoice our victory. I'd want to create art about the glorious battle. The fact that we probably won't get this victory makes me deeply upset.
- I wish more people could relate to this.
- I want to push the Overtown window such that mass murdering everyone building ASI is considered a mild strategy.
- At this point, threats of torture and astronomical suffering are what count to me as a significantly violent move. Like, if I promised that when I come to power and actually build an aligned ASI, I will inflict astronomical suffering on the people racing to build misaligned ASI today, as retaliation for what they did.
- (If anyone is reading this post, no, I am not actually promising to inflict astronomical suffering on them. This is a rant post.)
- Your friends are working day and night to build a bomb that blows up everyone on the planet. The highest positions of power and status of our civilisation are governed by those who build a bomb to blow up everyone on the planet. They are nakedly, shamelessly, openly telling us that they are risking the destruction of all life on Earth. You should be ashamed to be a member of this species if this is what the representatives of your species are doing. Wake the fuck up.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Accept that these people will never understand.
- Accept that people make the choice of violence versus non-violence not based on what actually works, but based on dumbfuck heuristics like "violence feels bad" and "I just want to live in my tiny little social circle of people as braindead as myself, people who understand sweet fuckall about how the world works, let alone have the courage to do anything to save it."
Main 2
- Interacting with more people is just making me bury up my resentment somewhere inside, where I don't openly show it to people. It is not obvious I am becoming any less resentful. I totally would kill all the people I have recently met, if there was a good reason to do so.
- This is a bit surprising to me. I somehow assumed that interacting with people will mean you will empathise with them more. And in a limited sense, yes this is true. If someone tells me about their dad dying or something, yes I do relate atleast a little. But also, I can feel that, and yet at the same time be like, okay if you were building an ASI I'd shoot your mom too lol.
- Maybe this is a good thing?
- I know there are a lot of therapy-brained retards who would be like "this doesn't sound healthy" or whatever.
- But like, my goals are I want to be capable of incredible amounts of violence, but I also want to be capable of love and good relationships.
- I want to be capable of feeling my emotions, and analysing things rationally. In the end I trust my rational brain more than emotions, emotions are often misleading. Limbic system is too monkey-brain short-term-oriented. Prefrontal cortex is needed to play the long-term game.
- Given that these are my goals, it actually doesn't sound bad that I am able to empathise with people to a non-zero degree, while also totally acknowledging that if the incentives shift I would personally be killing the very same people.
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