Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble (www.lesswrong.com)

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes, good plan, the ozone layer hole craves more skin cancer sacrifices. (And don't forget that hole is prob going to grow due to mega genius musk putting aluminum sats in the sky that burn up in high altitude)

Amusing also that nobody mentions piracy.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

He does mention that you'll need a military to defend your borders, though of course he's more concerned about opportunistic "legacy governments" taking his iceborne super country away from him rather than pirates showing up to fish anything valuable out of the sea as it all predictably and rapidly falls apart.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah this new 'military' setup will also quicly lead to them being seen as pirates by 'legacy governments' (who tend to love armed groups showing up, esp near any shipping lanes (if he wants to live anywhere away from the damaged ozone layer (the south of the south pacific seems somewhat empty at least). And the various groups of people in this new libertarian utopia (I'm going to assume it is libertarian) will surely not start preying on each other, or those nice 'legacy' shipping going round. At least 4 people will call themselves Ragnar Danneskjöld.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

but will USN wipe out half of their fleet in a single shift if they bother commercial shipping enough? (operations room)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

I meant more like treating the icelibertarians like the Houthis and tossing a few missiles into the iceskyscrapers than that kind of what I assume is USA military fanwank video.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 3 months ago

Who needs missiles when a few parabolic mirrors will do the job?

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

A million red-hot tungsten balls.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Nah, that would only happen if they touched our boats.

Or if we thought they touched our boats.

Or if something wholly unrelated happened to one of our boats nearby and it was politically convenient to say they had touched our boats even if they didn't actually have much reason to at the time.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Houthis have been bombed with every weapon at saudi air force disposal for almost decade by now

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

Yes, and they are still around, same with the Taliban, but for some reason I doubt the Icebertarians will be that anti-fragile. As soon as the first Icebertarian becomes homeless and sets up a tent they will bail. "I'm fine with them doing drugs in their homes, but now they are doing drugs and not even coding javascript! I cant bear it!"