Why Zizianism is proof that TDT is flawed and that LessWrong is a cult
I have been reading about the so-called Zizian cult, and I find it fascinating. I am able to identify some superficial similarities between the people who adhere to it and myself, and yet I am able to assume an outside perspective. Their strict adherence to rationality as touted by Yudkowsky et al and MIRI, their worshipping of what may almost be described as a philosophical God, this entity known as the utility function, reminds one of the fanatical dedication of Pythagoras' followers. They are a group of people who are willing to obey a strict prescription of rationality; even further, they probably view themselves as having no choice other than to do so, where each of their actions is an inevitable consequence of their level of decision-theory-literacy. Any group of people whose functioning depends on an extensive degree of fatalism may be described as a doomsday cult; the Zizians' chosen cause for Armageddon being Roko's Basilisk. How original. On LessWrong, there has ...
