A minute in Konkvistador's mind:
Again the very evil mind shattering secret, why do I keep running into you?
This is getting old, lots of people seem to know about it. And a few even know the evil soul wrecking idea.
The truth is out there, my monkey brains can't cope with the other's having a secret not willing to share, they may bash my skull in with a stone! I should just mass PM the guys who know about the secret in a nonconspicus way. They will drop hints, they are weak. Also traces of the relevant texts have to still be on-line.
That job advert seems to be the kind a rather small subset of organizations would put out.
That is just paranoid don't even think about that.
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Yay posting on Lesswrong feels like playing Call of Cthulhu!
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These are supposed to be not only very smart, but very rational people, people you have a high opinion of, who seem to take the idea very seriously. They may be trying to manipulate you. There may be a non-trivial possibility of them being right.
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I suddenly feel much less enthusiastic about life extension and cryonics.
I do have access to the forbidden post, and have no qualms about sharing it privately. I actually sought it out actively after I heard about the debacle, and was very disappointed when I finally got a copy to find that it was a post that I had already read and dismissed.
I don't think there's anything there, and I know what people think is there, and it lowered my estimation of the people who took it seriously, especially given the mean things Eliezer said to Roko.
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