I'm about 25 percent into the article and this part seems important:

This is his actual plan: to halt all AI research, all across the Earth, and instead do genetic engineering eugenics for a generation. Pause AI, stop AI, slowdown, pacing the frontier, they are all smokescreens, rationalizations, or ways of watering down this plan. This is why there is never any real “after we pause”, or “we will unpause when”; this is the only actual plan, and the public front for the plan cannot say this because it is too stupid and too offensive to be spoken in public, except by Yudkowsky himself, who never stops talking and who is too ridiculous for anyone on the outside of Effective Altruism to believe that everyone listens to him.

Sick. How do we get in?^1^

1: I just want to be clear, I think most things should be sex cults.

Jesus Christ, it's literally just a bunch of weird modern poly people

I think poly people can be a bit odd but you have to be pretty fucking conservative in your values to call that a sex cult.

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On further reading, Aella does seem pretty fucking problematic. Sex is great, drugs can be great, but both require a ton of responsibility... especially CNC orgies... You can't fly that fast and not crash.

I'm not blaming the drugs, but don't be surprised if people with good intentions fuck up when they can't think straight. And she sounds extra irresponsible and wanting to push every limit.

Just because anybody's a sex pervert doesn't mean they're wrong about something completely other than sex.

Adopting that judgement about their person means that only white Christian monogamous hetero cis men are valued for their expertise.

basically horny reddit mods

It's sex cults all the way down.

Do they practice safe sex by having orgies in a Faraday box?

EDIT: about 50% into the article, the sex they practice doesn't seem very safe, sane, or consensual

Sad indictment of American tech culture to be honest.

I feel like you only need first principles and solve precautionary logic to care about AI safety. Not some pseudo-intellectual circle-jerk-first.

I think this article is at least ten times longer than it needs to be. No wonder people are focusing on the stuff related to the headline.

There was a YouTuber I saw with some more inside stuff... let me check.

Found it! The AI Apocalypse is Decadent & Depraved - YouTube by NetLoss. Definitely an interesting story.

Go Bears?

I agree that they are a really creepy bunch of people with very large egos, but I'm not sure about it being an organised cult.

I will say that I would absolutely hate to receive an invite to these disgustingly crusty orgies.