Walt Bismarck
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Walt Bismarck is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 06, 2024 and August 08, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Walt Bismarck compares the ultimate fate of altruism to WALL-E”; “Walt Bismarck (whose right-wing defense of master morality”; “Walt Bismarck (whose right-wing defense of master morality I dismissed in the post as “but I like bad and cruel”) writes”. It most often appears alongside effective altruists, Nietzschean, Switzerland.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 06, 2024
- Last seen: August 08, 2024
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- effective altruists (2 shared issues)
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- Nietzschean (2 shared issues)
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- Switzerland (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- 10240 (1 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- @slatestarcodex (1 shared issues)
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- Acemoglu & Robinson (1 shared issues)
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- Agememnon (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
In a blog post (linked in the original post, discussed at length in the comments), Walt Bismarck compares the ultimate fate of altruism to WALL-E: a world where morbidly obese humans are kept in a hedonistic haze by robot servitors (although the more typical example I hear is tiling the universe with rats on heroin, which maximizes a certain definition of pleasure). In contrast, vitalism imagines a universe alive with dynamism, heroism, and great accomplishments.
Inline links: a blog post
Walt Bismarck (whose right-wing defense of master morality I dismissed in the post as “but I like bad and cruel”) writes:
Inline links: right-wing defense of master morality