people say this a lot, to the point it's become a meme. but in fact, very few of the people throughout history who believed in their causes enough to live and die for them found "looksmaxxing" to be a relevant part of their strategy.

@ArtemisConsort

Yudkowski’s disdain for aesthetics is how I know he doesn’t really take his AI doom hypothesis seriously. If you really believed what he claims to believe, you’d do everything possible. Lose weight, hire a stylist, hire a social coach, etc.

he made it clear many years ago he was running out of capacity, that he lacked the time or energy to be personally responsible for the fate of the human race. he managed the nearly impossible task of inspiring tens of thousands of the worlds smartest and most capable to his cause

@ArtemisConsort

He should be aiming to become God-emperor to ward off the apocalypse. Nothing is more important, right? Rationalism is systematized winning, right? So why isn’t he president? Just a few weeks of hunger, and applying his formidable mind to the task of effective propaganda.

sure, charismatic attractive leaders can do well at convincing the general public. but when ur goal is to inspire an entirely new form of thinking among an extremely specific subset of the population , then u optimize for different things

yudkowsky may yet have saved us, or he may not, but either way at this point it's up to the rest of humanity. there's nothing stopping a ripped EA-child with perfect hair from running for president. he created the talent pool, let individuals play to their strengths