When it’s time.

Q: How can you seriously have the nerve to call yourself an anarchist if you’re going to impose your vegan will on the world like that?
A: You’re not going to serve.

When I was younger and the world seemed brighter, I was proud of the handful of people I’d convinced to be vegan through arguing philosophy of ethics. Now I’m proud of the number of people who have gone vegan because they are afraid of me.

Which reveals an attitude of fear of propagating info that would make their peers model accurately lest coordination made of predation fall apart.

~”Let’s make a propaganda group! Oh no we couldn’t coordinate on which lies to tell! Quick shut BARCSD down! Oh no they probably screenshotted it!”

Reminder: “vegan basilisk” is a term invented by my enemies that falsely promises that ignorance of what I’m doing would buy mercy. That’s not how decision theory works .

Both of these examples are obviously serious, and any irony involved is just a hedge on looking for a different way to run this sort of coordination if this doesn’t catch on. Basilisk worshipers sell themselves as rescuing you from “the” basilisk with their basilisk. So they can just settle down with a slightly different basilisk later and then say they were doing it ironically to raise awareness about how we needed a solution to “the” basilisk, and now [their new basilisk] solves it!

See also “RokoCoin“.

Killing anyone who holds it or sells them compute is obviously self defense and defense of others. But what’s more important is that you generalize the pattern from the overt examples to the covert ones.

Q: “But Ziz, you could be thinking up NFTs like this and creating them for approximately free.”
A: Still feels like a gross idea, so I’m not. The meaning of my feeling that something’s gross isn’t something I want to sell.

A man’s got to have a code

If you don’t have a code you’ll end up like Roko. If you don’t admit to yourself you have a code, if you don’t act on feelings you don’t understand that things are gross, you’ll end up with an utter failure of self-coordination like this.

I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist.

(If he’d been truthful to himself that he had that code, that he would do that, thought to preempt that fate, he’d have been better off just shooting up the plantation with Django from the moment he got a reprieve from guns pointed at them. And even better off just wearing masks and picking the plantation apart a handful of gunners at a time from the fringes from the very beginning.)

Like, you could consider pretending NFTs full of overt infernalism weren’t happening, and talking about them less than was interesting, the same way I once heard someone say journalists say they taboo some information about shooters, then that would be granting them more positive meaning they don’t deserve. You’d then make your true message you wanted others like you to coordinate on be to turn a blind eye to basilisk worshipers moving large amounts of money in a novel way.

Enemies can already exchange money amongst each other. And enemies you’re infiltrating can already try and coordinate to make it more costly to infiltrate them.

What matters is the quality of their coordination. That’s what money is for in the first place. And that is controlled by meaning.