David Boree

Yeah, it's not people who have been touched, and it's certainly not people who have entirely based their understanding on the world from quotes from Star Wars and Harry Potter. And some of this comes from just like – this is a normal deranged way of thinking that happens to a lot of people in just Western – I think a lot of this leads to –

Yeah, it's not people who have been touched, and it's certainly not people who have entirely based their understanding on the world from quotes from Star Wars and Harry Potter. And some of this comes from just like – this is a normal deranged way of thinking that happens to a lot of people in just Western – I think a lot of this leads to –

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

Ziz writes, I did not trust most humans in difference to build a net positive cosmos, even in the absence of a technological convenience to prey on animals. So like I'm the only one who has the mental capability to actually create the net positive cosmos that needs to come into being. All of her discussion is talking in terms of I'm saving the universe, right?

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?

And a lot of that does come out of the way many of these people talk on the internet about the stakes of AI and just like the importance of rationality. Again, this is something Scientology does. L. Ron Hubbard always couched getting people on Dianetics in terms of we are going to save the world and end war, right?