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AI safety is mostly a sex cult

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  1. haunter · · focus · HN ↗
    >She has a rape kink

    That's enough internet for today, back to playing video games

    1. fennecbutt · · focus · HN ↗
      Well most likely consensual noncon given the amount of vetting present in that chart. It's surprisingly common in women, or just a desire for general "gentle roughness".

      And idk why it's really worth mentioning anyway, as a gay furry I suppose vanilla normie straights are STILL hung up on what people do with their sex lives. As long as it's legal and consensual who gaf? Y'all, apparently.

      1. peri-cl · · focus · HN ↗
        I'm relieved to hear a voice of simple decency!

        Really, the most questionable thing here is that someone wrote a 2,000+ word essay about someone else's sex life.

        1. mjburgess · · focus · HN ↗
          It's not about their sex life. It's about how sex connects a community of barely legible AI doomerism.

          If you don't understand human social interactions very well, or otherwise assume you live in a "world of ideas", then this may not seem salient. However, it is.

          Because what we have to explain is why there's a community of people in northern california who deliver unargued prophecies about the end of human civilisation as-if their prophetic ability is a given.

          The answer, unsuprisingly, is sex. This is not an unusual answer in the world of "prophetic communication". What, in the end, is prophecy as a social practice? It is some ideological Leader with followers who impart to that leader a 'charismatic power' of foreknowledge based on their attachement to that leader.

          What is the mechanism of this attachemnt? In otherwords: how is this style of prophecy spreading around the AI doomer community, if not by plain argument and evidence? Sex.

          1. stickfigure · · focus · HN ↗
            There are many other... let's call them "orgy circles"... in the Bay Area attended by people who have no idea who Eliezer Yudkowsky is. The majority of AI doomers do not attend orgies. You're reading too much into a single correlation.
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