Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die - Less Wrong
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Right, I'm just saying, that's how I know it's not the real Voldemort posting.
We may have different standards for "genius"; I don't think I've ever heard of someone who I would classify as both malicious (negated utility function, actually wants to hurt people rather than just being selfish) and brilliant. I also doubt that any such person exists nowadays, because, you see, we're not all dead.
That's how you know it's not Voldemort posting?
A person who greatly enjoys abducting, torturing, and killing a few people every couple months is plausible, whereas a person who wants to maximize death and pain is much less so. A genius of the former kind does not kill us all.