The USA has the highest GDP and is a complete failure as a society for the majority of the people. The GDP produced at these "high levels" is the most nonsensical bullshit-jobs-derived "product" with no relationship whatsoever to contributing to a healthy, happy society.
Fuck this dork and people like him. True delusional scum.
As a bit of context, this whole segment of the "Rationalism"-centric right (including ) is currently having a meltdown about Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott giving away a bunch of money to charities that support DEI and other "wokeisms." Roko has settled on "anti-production" as his way of framing what they're mad about. He thinks that doing things that encourage diversity is anti-productive in the sense that they represent active damage to the economy ( )
advertising executive for nestle produces more for the global society than 1000 coffee bean harvesters. This is obviously true as proven by the market, thus we can remove all coffee bean harvesters and substitute them 500-to-1 for advertising professionals, free up people and increase gdp.
Yes sure, pay women a UBI to party, read theory and organise for 20 years of their lives. See how that works out for you when you suddenly force them to enter the workforce at 40 years old, angry, pissed off, lacking experience, and brutally looked down upon by male coworkers.
Really brutal reeducation camps for people like this. Really annoying when the dumbest person in any given room has everything "figured out" and "proven"
Roko's Basilisk is a silly little sci-fi story that its creator calls a "thought experiment" because he considers himself an intellectual. Absolute moron.
I fucking hate nuclear energy types, because their arguments generally boil down to "no we don't have to address the issues inherent in the capitalist system that has led us to the brink of climate collapse, we have a panacea! It's actually not dangerous at all, because the times that it was dangerous didn't count because they were built/run poorly." They never stop to consider that nuclear power plants are built/run poorly because of capitalism and they WILL continue to be dangerous as long as we are driven by a lust for mammon.
And yeah he's also weird about women. Also a dipshit talking about facts while knowing none. He should drown.
Obviously this is dumb but it's weirdly more 'progressive' than I expected? Like women would get guaranteed lifetime UBI without restrictions on their behavior?
And by that I mean gesturing to mathematics and evolution in an insane attempt to justify my 19th century robber baron views on gender! I am so fucking smart!
Clearly the people who are responsible for the most worth in the economy are people who tell scary stories about robots, like Roko here, and not maids, grocery workers or waitresses. You can tell because they're paid less, see.