This sounds a lot like you are lazily slandering someone in order to avoid having to treat them as a human being. I'm open to Scott being a dirty eugenicist. I haven't read his whole blog, just parts of it. Make the case for real.
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It is "rationalism"-adjacent, one of their leading lights, Robin Hanson, wrote a paper about it in the 90s Honestly to me it's mostly wank The filter is probably just that interstellar travel of any kind is too expensive to ever happen
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You don't even have to get dramatic about the human race blowing ourselves up, we just have to not build starships and fill up the universe at any point Which is fine, because that's a stupid thing to do and there's no actual reason to do it
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Intelligent life by its nature fails to coordinate at scale until the oceans evaporate or nukes drop. The notion that truth doesn't matter spreads through populations until even those worried about the climate are paradoxically against nuclear energy. Defectors kill us all.
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If we're going to talk about "defectors" and the Prisoner's Dilemma and other nerd shit I am on record as saying the ending to Cabin in the Woods is one of my favorite movie endings ever
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A popular comics account did a video yesterday about Galactus mentioning the Filter so my guess is this is just someone wanting to talk about it
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