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• Storytime with Rationalist Rabbi Scott Alexander

  This was posted on catholic easter sunday on the ssc subreddit. It’s a posted-on-April 1st-for-plausible-deniability siskind post from back in 2018, where he outlines a kind of argument about how an all-powerfull entity that’s God in all but name (and obviously emanated from a culture discovering AGI) is actually “logically necessary”. He calls the whole thing “The Hour I First Believed”. I think it’s notable for being a bit of a treasure trove of rationalist weird accepted truths, such as:...