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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Do the Zizians fit in the "rationalist/EA/risk community"? Gosh and golly gee.
Yuddites and Zizians are a better example of the "narcissism of small differences" than any of the ones that Siskind propped up.
From what I've been able to piece together from the various theological disputes people have had with the murder cult it seems like the only two differences are that Ziz and friends are much more committed to nonhuman animal welfare than the average rat and that they have decided that the correct approach to conflict is always to escalate. This makes them more aggressive about basically everything which looks like a much deeper ideological gap than there actually is. I'm not going to evaluate whether these are reasonable conclusions to take from the same bizarre set of premises that lead to Roko's Basilisk being a concern.
However, I do think that the unfolding of this story presents an object lesson in why "always escalate to the max" is a wildly stupid idea. It turns out that even when you have guns (metaphorical or otherwise) and a complete disregard for the consequences of failure the average group of citizens is still at a decided disadvantage to the state at higher points on the escalation ladder.
You misunderstand, they escalate to the max to keep themselves (including selves in parallel dimensions or far future simulations) from being blackmailed by future super intelligent beings, not to survive shootouts with border patrol agents.
I am fairly certain Yud had said something very close to that effect in reference to preventing blackmail from the basilisk, even though he tries to no-true-scotchman zizians wrt his functional decision 'theory' these days.