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2025-09-21

My views on Lesswrong

• Lesswrong has a lot of low-agency Thinkers (not Doers) who want to stay in a comfortable tech job or AI capabilities job, and will retroactively invent justifications for why that this is the best thing to do.
  • Get their feedback, sure, but don't make the mistake of thinking you should necessarily become like them.
• I support a worldwide ban on deployment of superintelligent AI for atleast next 10 years.
  • Solving technical AI alignment will not change my position as I also believe in the possibility of ASI-enabled dictatorships (enforced via hyperpersuasion or violence) that are stable for >100 years.
• I support a worldwide ban on deployment of human genetic engineering for atleast next 10 years. (Weak opinion)
  • I am not yet convinced commoditisation will occur fast enough to prevent dictatorships (enforced via hyperpersuasion or violence).
  • I definitely also think people (parents, community leaders, dictators) will attempt to engineer (precursors to) moral values in their kids based on what is competitive, rather than ideal in some philosophical sense.
• I do not ascribe to utilitarianism, longtermism or universe colonisation as my primary life philosophy.
  • I would like to add value to society at scale, and prefer solving bigger problems over smaller ones. I like to think long-term on scale of centuries not billions of years. I am yet to fully figure out my values.
• I think attention is worth more than capital.
  • I think acquiring capital not attention might be a common mistake elites in SF are making. You can pay or threaten someone into do a thing, you can't pay them to actually care.
  • Religious leaders (actually persuade someone to change their values) > Politicians (use violence as incentive) > Billionaires (use money as incentive)
  • Yudkowsky has made a successful attempt to start a religion for atheists. I don't ascribe to it, but I think more religion for atheists is good.

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