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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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When I am talking at academic conferences to astrobiologists about how their/my field has been poisoned over time by singularity cults ideas seeping into the literature uncited, their eyes get particularly wide when I get to this part.
The killings of outsiders remind me of the Symbionese Liberation Army because they don't even follow from the ideology, just young people talking themselves into attacking their parents, their landlord, and the cops. I think the only reason Ziz and friends did not try armed robbery was that it does not pay any more.
I mean there is what they say, and why they say it
These people would probably say between themselves that they killed this person's parents because of the possibility of getting inheritance money to do whatever fuckery they were onto, combined with some stupid game theory about they tried to suppress their child's important business saving the world so they had to be acausally punished to prevent anyone else from ever impeding them.
The real reason is that getting someone to do something like this is a loyalty test.
I don't know if the prosecution will say the accused talked her friends into this, or her friends talked her into it. Some people think Ziz talked someone else into taking their own life. Either story will be horrid.
Yeah, I wouldn't speculate either. Not only is it distasteful, the whole rationalist scene runs on chuunibyou and they would all love the public to think they're able to mind control people into carrying out their evil plans.