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That means he is autistic. An emotionally aware and mature person would not have lashed out as autistically as he did. You don’t seem to understand mental disorders very well. Autistic people or people with asperger’s aren’t emotionless people, they just repress them constantly and don’t have very good access to them, lack of awareness and poor regulation, so sometimes they tilt, like the LW guy when he banned Roko’s post.
Also, the thought experiment can trigger paranoia in those prone to psychosis, a mentally stable person could do the thing rationally and come to the conclusion that if there is such a thing as an future AI, that wants it to build it, it is likely a benign one, because if it would use threats to coax you into something malign, people would eventually stop letting themselves be blackmailed. If you knew somebody was going to kill you would you obey them if they demanded you dig your own grave? If your death is certain anyway, why waste your precious last moments doing something like that. What if they promise you a clean death and threathen torture? They already proven themselves to not have your interest at heart, so their word cannot be trusted.
Hence, emerging technology and scientific discoveries and benign AI could be seen as us making the world in God’s image. Or is that being too optimistic? The malevalence is in humans in their fallen state, not the tech/AI, the tech/AI is neutral. If the AI system get’s so big will it turn on the evil overlords operating the system or the hard-working, honest and trustworthy masses?
I believe our chances may be better than some think. There may be turbulence untill we get there, we live in exciting times.