Wow. Some of your other posts are intelligent, but this is pure troll-bait.
EDIT: I suppose I should share my reasoning. Copied from my other post lower down the thread:
Hello, I expect you won't like me, I'm
Classic troll opening. Challenges us to take the post seriously. Our collective 'manhood' is threatened if react normally (eg saying "trolls fuck off").
dont want to be turned onto an immortal computer-brain-thing that acts more like Eliezer thinks it should
Insulting straw man with a side of "you are an irrational cult".
I've been lurking for a long time... overcoming bias... sequences... HP:MOR... namedropping
"Seriously, I'm one of you guys". Concern troll disclaimer. Classic.
evaporative cooling... women... I'm here to help you not be a cult.
Again undertones of "you are a cult and you must accept my medicine or turn into a cult". Again we are challenged to take it seriously.
I just espoused, it'll raise the probability that you start worshiping the possibility of becoming immortal polyamorous whatever and taking over the world.
I didn't quite understand this part, but again, straw man caricature.
I'd rather hang around and keep the Singularity from being an AI that forcibly exterminates all morality and all people who don't agree with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Not that any of you (especially EY) WANT that, exactly. But anyway, my point is, With Folded Hands is a pretty bad failure mode for the worst-case scenario where EC occurs and EY gets to AI first.
Theres a rhetorical meme on 4chan that elegantly deals with this kind of crap:
implying we don't care about friendliness
implying you know more about friendliness than EY
'nuff said
Okay, ready to be shouted down. I'll be counting the downvotes as they roll in, I guess. You guys really hate Christians, after all.
classic reddit downvote preventer:
You guys really hate Christians, after all. (Am I actually allowed to be here or am I banned for my religion?)
again implying irrational insider/outsider dynamic, hivemind tendencies and even censorship.
Of course the kneejerk response is "no no, we don't hate you and we certainly won't censor you; please we want more christian trolls like you". EDIT: Ha! well predicted I say. I just looked at the other 500 responses. /EDIT
I'll probably just leave soon anyway. Nothing good can come of this. I don't know why I'm doing this. I shouldn't be here; you don't want me here, not to mention I probably shouldn't bother talking to people who only want me to hate God. Why am I even here again? Seriously, why am I not just lurking? That would make more sense.
And top it off with a bit of sympathetic character, damsel-in-distress crap. EDIT: Oh and the bit about hating God is a staw-man. /EDIT
This is not necessarily deliberate, but it doesn't have to be.
Trolling is a art. and Aspiring_Knitter is a artist. 10/10.
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