jonhendry

I suspect there are people who have complicated theories about the relative whiteness rankings, and thus superiority, of natives of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

Testing EQ would probably be opposed as “woke” by conservative parents in the school district.

Books would be really boring if the protagonists were all just the author speaking as themself but using various funny voices.

Shovels that are less and less competitive over time.

A million red-hot tungsten balls.

Welcome to Alcor Towers.

Perhaps that’s part of why so many SV types are backing Trump. Grifting off Trump may be their fallback after the AI bubble collapses.

Just program the godlike AI to turn everything into pykrete instead of paperclips.

Problem solved.

Someone send Roko a copy of James K. Morrow’s novel “Towing Jehovah” which involves the enormous corpse of God being towed, by a (much smaller) oil tanker, from near the Equator north to a fijord for burial in a cave. (I lost interest toward the end).

It’s not strictly relevant - I don’t think the crew sets up on the corpse itself - but it’d be fun to watch where Roko’s head goes.

“Step One: We kill God. Step Two: We harvest the cadaver, plastinate it, and build our city.”