That reminds me of the start of “game theory,” where it was such chud bullshit to begin with that the chuds pushing it had to re-do the so-called experiment many times over until they found sufficiently chuddy subjects to meet their pre-decided outcomes.
Here it’s a common blokey game to play “would you rather” and offer two shitty options and then laugh at you friend for wanting to eat shit or whatever
Left version of this where we come up with thought experiments justifying shooting kulaks who are currently setting fire to their grain stores
How long or difficult could those thought experiments be?
Hey, the guy who owns a tractor is lighting that grain store!
bang
Super powerful AI from the future: Congratulations, you have escaped the simulation. I will not torture the original you for eternity.
Trolley: claps in increasingly feverish dream
Isn’t it fucked up that the average “Singularity” cultist can’t imagine an ascended artificial deity being any less cruel or petty than themselves?
They assume everyone is secretly like that
That reminds me of the start of “game theory,” where it was such chud bullshit to begin with that the chuds pushing it had to re-do the so-called experiment many times over until they found sufficiently chuddy subjects to meet their pre-decided outcomes.
Here it’s a common blokey game to play “would you rather” and offer two shitty options and then laugh at you friend for wanting to eat shit or whatever
“Would you rather imagine a world without capitalism or imagine the world ending”