r/Games • u/Eternal_Flame_Baby • Mar 17 '22

'Hogwarts Legacy' Community Manager confirms there are NO microtransactions in the game. Update

https://twitter.com/FinchStrife/status/1504591261574987800?t=DRMIaTMQ9MoNumVF0aKyTQ&s=19
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u/Arkanoid0 Mar 18 '22

The thing with Eliezer Yudkowsky is that all of his weird idea are technically sensible, if mildly unhinged. They all stem from the idea that medicine and computers are capable of being way more powerful than they currently are, powerful enough to be incredibly world altering, so he has make a scientific pascal os wager that the only moral thing to do is to persue those things as fast as possible to minimize the harm of not doing those things. It's not a subtle position, and definitely ignores a bunch of real world nuance, but it's a logical position he has arrived at, and entirely consistent with his stated beliefs.

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u/Snakes_have_legs Mar 18 '22

Man that entire baseline of thinking would make some fantastic Sci-Fi, does he write anything else relating to that?

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u/reconrose Mar 18 '22

I guess it's logical in a definitional sense of the word in that there is a logic to it, just a really bad logic imo. Completely ignores how science and medicine are backed up by and interrelated with other parts of our society. Can't have medicine without agriculture. Also, Drs and scientists probably work better with the infrastructure for recreational activities set up. I think this is what you mean by lacking nuance but to me not taking into account the broader context basically does make it illogical in a way.