Against truth - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
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Also against rationalism, utilitarianism, AI, and Eliezer Yudkowsky in particular
I try not to get too meta in this space. Aside from my end-of-year posts, I don’t like to talk all that much about the general project of Numb at the Lodge, what it is I’m doing here and why; in general I think my work does fine just expressing itself without having a load of explanation slathered on top. Anyway, too much talking about the talking starts to feel like audience interaction, community-building, that sort of thing, which I’m deeply against for reasons I’ve gone into at tedious length before. I’m also against paying too much attention to the discourse, especially when it’s…
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