It's pretty relevant when he's got a 501(c)3 for it taking somewhere over a million dollars a year. At that point, talking about this stuff is in the public interest.

But essentially, the entire philosophical edifice of the Sequences, and the weird ideas that if you look sideways add up to Roko's basilisk, entirely stem from the premise "I want to live forever, an emulation running in a supercomputer counts, how do I get there?"