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JohnBierce @ JohnBierce @awful.systems
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Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Thank you!

    I actually have some thoughts about that topic as well- could be an interesting thread! (I personally think that we are, at least to a small extent, similar dynamic-wise to the cult survivor networks that help their friends and family escape the cult they themselves escaped- after all, a huge number of us are former Rationalists or, like myself, narrowly escaped their gravitational pull. Kinda puts a weird twist on our relationship to the Rationalists. Doesn't make us immune from transitioning from "unkind critics" to something worse, especially if we were to start brigading or something else awful, but I think has some valuable social lessons for the group?)

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Yeah, I thought about bringing his ideas up more as examples (definitely seen him pop in Sneerclub a few times), but I've got no idea if he would want to be even more prominent in this conversation than he already is. And the post was already more than long enough.

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Hah I wish I could say I was still a teenager when I almost got sucked in, but...

    And yeah, the internet was so much more fun back in the day.

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • I mean, a lot of that fiction is just really good! Frankly, the rationalists tend to miss the point so hard, hyperfocusing on the cool gadgets and missing the commentaries on civilization, society, history, human nature, etc. Don't let their awful beige California ideology ruin your fondness of some genuinely entertaining, thought-provoking literature.

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Pretty much how I feel. Genuinely considering starting a lemmy instance or something to take over for the subreddit for my books.

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • I spent a lot of time on r/SneerClub back in the day, I know to keep things NSFW, hah! And I'll check out MoreWrite, that sounds fun!

    And the archived copy is totally fine by me, who knows how long Reddit will survive?

    • Do Novelists Need to Worry About AI? (In which I rant for entirely too long about Yudkowsky and his ilk.)

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  • Thanks!

    • If you've made it here from the outer reaches, comment and say hi

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  • Hi, I'm John Bierce, cheesy fantasy novelist (both in the sense of writing cheesy books, and in the sense of being full of the literal dairy product), and I was on SneerClub (using various accounts) since around... 2019, 2020? I've missed it since it fled Reddit, especially with all the rampant, stupid AI hype and TESCREAL bullshit running rampant right now.