jd_pressman: the best post-ASI visions came from ratfiction, not the rationalists

jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-11

Replying to Andrew Curran's complaint that rationalists abrogated their duty to discuss post-ASI scenarios and personhood, jdpressman argues that on a curved grading, nearly every meaningful vision was written by them anyway: Friendship Is Optimal, Worth The Candle, Reedspacer's Lower Bound. The mistake, he says, was not leaning into this tradition even more.

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