Interesting he mentions that Kyle Hill guy, the only reason I know about him is shilling on behalf of nuclear grifters (example of nuclear grift: Oklo: a startup with no reactor designs, publicly traded with peak market cap of $25 billion and an origin story in a ponzi scheme).
I don’t think getting rid of elections would work. Dictatorships do not rely on election rigging alone. That’s just interventionist propaganda (barge in, set up elections, presto, democracy).
Competent dictators don’t act anything like Trump. Once in power they try to obtain support of as wide of a section of the population as possible. There’s no freedom of speech in a dictatorship; the dictator is giving prepared speeches, designed to bolster his support, to unify the nation, etc, not just having fun gloating at half the nation’s expense.
If he actually tries to maintain power despite his relative unpopularity, the consequences will be utterly disastrous.
It’s kind of ridiculous on its face. Yudkowsky was never some guy making money off writing code or any other “nerdy” activity (even though people doing that can be as sociopathic as anyone else). Pre-HPMoR part of his career is just “does sociopathy for a living”. After, too, but like with a bit of branching out into book writing.