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>>3706337
>people donate thousands of dollars to SIAI
>not a single cent for the IMM
>expect nanotechnology by the 2020's

Cult, cult, cult. A cult based on the idea that these technologies will happen out of the wonders of drawing lines of log paper and paying the Great And Venerable Yudkowsky, His Metamajesty Emself, so write crossover Harry Potter fanfiction about 'rationality'. In transhumanism, 99% of what has to be said has been said, and 99% of what has to be done has not been done, and sitting on one's ass repeating "Gee, the hard-takeoff AI overlords will be here any day now!" is not going to accomplish anything. Most of the 'AI researchers' the robot cultists worship are useless retards, con artists, snake oil salesmen who don't know what they are doing and steal your money, they are more worried about the risks of magical invisible AI Gods than actual research. Existential risk my ass. It's the H+ equivalent of bioethics: An excuse to sit on your ass and pretend you care, only that all bioethicists are a bunch of luddites, which is the main difference.

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Pic related.