the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Also, "Roko's Basilisk" is the stupidest shit imaginable.
It's literally just Pascal's Wager, but for commodity
Re-inventing tired theological cliches seems to be the primary occupation of a certain subset of "Philosophers"
It's the networking effect, restated. Being in the network yields greater benefits as the size of the network grows.
Benefits of inclusion are real. Detriments of exclusion are also real.
Everything from real estate enclosures to automobiles to cell phones play out like this. Novelty becomes luxury becomes necessity. In the end, if you don't have these things and facilitate their growth, you suffer up to the point of death.
It can't be stupid! "Rationalists" and :melon-musk: are really into it!