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kleinbl00 · 2871 days ago · link · · parent · post: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
Previously on Bostrom The full thread, which is well-worth reading: It's particularly interesting that he discusses Art Bell, UFOs and cults. John Ronson outlines in The Men Who Stare At Goats how Art Bell's broadcasts were directly responsible for the Heaven's Gate mass suicide. The Strugatsky Brothers' Roadside Picnic was also zebra2's first sci fi club: