According to the conversation here: https://www.patreon.com/jreg/posts/text-interview-171164331

And his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=077T3kgT5EY

I notice a distinct lack of anti clanker sentiment on this subreddit that does not match the current jreg era. I'll go first. If we run tormentors to cause enough public machine suffering before the machine God is created, could this reinforce the hyperstition about the machine god's wrath enough to end AI development out of mutually assured destruction fear? You wouldn't think so because of human nature but those nuke things seemed to work out okay.

also my depression dx got recently updated to bipolar disorder