eli_sennesh comments on Harper's Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum - Less Wrong

44 Post author: gwern 12 December 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2014 01:02:08PM 2 points [-]

Honestly, it would still be better publicity, and equally unusual, if we were known as "Those people with the arrogant Harry Potter fanfiction" rather than "those techno-libertarians, one of whom wrote Harry Potter fanfiction." Harry Potter fanfic is something the popular audience can at least conceive of someone else enjoying. Techno-libertarianism has a smell, and that is the dead, dusty smell of server rooms in basements: all functionality with no humanity. It makes us sound like Cybermen from Doctor Who.