Link: https://www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in-berkeley-california

We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.

TW: Sexual Assault

It's sex cults all the way down.

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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.

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.

Go Bears?

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.

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

What are "computer numerical control orgies?"

I thought it was "can not cum"

CNC = consentual non-consentual. I.e., pretending to SA as a fetish.

See the "Brangus Unchained" section of the posted writing.

Core leaders for MIRI, Lighthaven and the community fetishistically prefer simulated [SA]. They are bound together by having hobbies and secrets in common. This seems to be an important form of social tie in this group. They promote their sexual interests and recruit for their sexual events so prominently because these are the things they care about and believe in. These people are some of the most influential, if not the most influential people in AI Safety.

I urge you to read beyond the headline. The author intentionally buries the lede; it is too obscene to be taken seriously if stated flat. I agree with your statement.

This piece is not some ad homenim attacking the character of these prominent AI safety figures, using this attack on their character to claim that their work on AI safety is wrong/incorrect/invalid because of their sex cult.

This is about exposing the power dynamics which core leaders of AI safety groups which are highly influential across tech in SF. These persons fetishistically prefer simulated rape, and are bonded together by this preference.

All of the main content of rationalism is a trick. Every time Yudkowsky’s writing explains some trick your brain can pull, it is the magician showing you his sleeves while he palms a card: it is meant to convince you that whatever trick he is about to do next is impossible, and to prevent you from figuring out how it was done or ever believing it had happened

For the Rationalists in the audience: The purpose of explaining Pascal’s Mugging was to make you think you had figured it out so that you would believe you were too smart and well-informed to be Pascal’s Mugged, and to make it impossible to convince you that it had happened to you later once it had.

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'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.

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.

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.

Reading this, it took me a minute to remember where I'd previously seen Aella online. It turns out she is the model who went majorly viral on Reddit years ago for staging /GoneWild photo shoots in which she was terrorized by gnome statues.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/interviews/aella-discusses-her-viral-history-showering-habits-lsd-gnome-posting-and-spicy-birthday-party

It bums me out that someone who once had the creativity, self-awareness, and sense of humor to succeed in that sort of thing went on to do awful stuff.

While i like the idea of sex cults; I don't like the idea of being in a sex cult full of racist techbros that hold the religious belief that AM will go terminator on us.

You need to read up more on Yudkowski and the cult of The Rationalists.

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