"Great Filter" - is this more Roko's Basilisk fuckwattery?
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Spite is our only hope Strategic "irrationality" is the only rationality It is the *fear* of spite - the possibility that someone will burn down everything for pure vengeance - that is the only way to enforce certain versions of cooperation in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
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The only way to keep the pilot from being an absolute tyrant - "I'm flying the plane! I can get anything I want if you don't wanna die" - is to possibly become a crazy motherfucker "Bitch you push me too far I WILL crash this plane and burn to death just to kill you too"
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Corporations may not remember how spite work, but authoritarians still do: whether it's the Assad supporters writing "Assad or we burn the country", Trump openly fantasying about nukes or trying to send the troops to slaughter BLM protesters…
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Spanish fascists shouting "Viva la Muerte", German and Japan late WWII military strategy being summarized at "kill as many guys on the other side as possible even thought we know we've already lost"…
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