asciilifeform: or at the very least it is his official thing.
asciilifeform: sorta like what existing usg tries to do with nukes
asciilifeform: y wants to form an all-powerful usg-like stooge force to get between anyone who might be crafting 'rogue ai' (ai not designed by y and sycophants) and their work
asciilifeform: his particular stated ambition is worth commenting on, also
asciilifeform: the www forum was like the 1st stage of rocket.
asciilifeform: at any rate, the operative fact re yudkowsky is that he 1) took his cult to meatspace, nailing down funding, chix, sycophants, offices, etc 2) jettisoned the now-useless reddit
asciilifeform: ^ interesting character from the lesswrong heyday. wrote 'harry potter and rationality' but for 'fifty shades'. also famous for having introduced 'offending wimminz is off limits' to lesswrong; and for suffering 'nightmares' on account of 'roko's basilisk'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: you oughta have been here for the ' mircea_popescu arguing that there is no such thing as peformance dope ' thread the other day
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldn't it depend on who 'wins' ?
asciilifeform: could be -- i've heard it rumoured that his harem includes dudes
asciilifeform: this is where i say that i have absolutely nfi. was only conjecturing as to why the 'ring of popescuinity' has not melted his flesh from radiation damage.
asciilifeform: the cunt is responding to the man being a master of an army.
asciilifeform: the difference that the death he was supposed to die as per mircea_popescu's observation is forestalled.
asciilifeform: the infrastructural work of keeping weevils out of the stash is, presumably, handled by his master.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is probably still thinking of yudkowsky as a rich man, even if in the lottery sense. but he is actually, in effect, an employee - simply a very highly-compensated one
asciilifeform: he did not personally invent his crackpotteries, but carefully cut out of actual works of philosophy, translated to sv porchmonkey language, and marketed.
asciilifeform: as with mr mold, yudkowsky 'cheated' by being a rather good librarian
asciilifeform: nothing so strange. somewhat rhetorically-savvy fella, gathers a buncha sillycon valley types, and convinces them that (in their words) 'smartest human who ever lived.' money rains in, chix put out, etc.
asciilifeform: maybe if derp finds The Ring of Popescuinity in the mud, and cleans it up, and wields some of its powers, he still isn't mircea_popescu ?
asciilifeform: anyway he successfully distilled the most hardcore folks from his original cult into a new thing, is moar funded than ever before, as far as i can tell, and is happily fellating thiel with renewed vigour.
