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AI safety is mostly a sex cult

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  1. wvbdmp · · focus · HN ↗
    I’d rather be in a “sex cult”, whatever that entails, than this ridiculous culture that’s somehow still doing moral panics over sex. Maybe it’s just deeply human, or maybe it really is stabilizing society to relegate sex to something dirty and private, but I have a feeling it’s just a dumb conflation that’s so easy to exploit it’s never allowed to go away. It’s like the “think of the children” thought-stopper and we’d do well to get past it.

    Naturally, any culture has misfits, radicals and free-thinkers, and so naturally a sex-negative culture will produce at least some focus on sex in its counter-cultures. Doesn’t seem very interesting.

    1. throwthrowuknow · · focus · HN ↗
      This isn’t moral panic, it’s saying “hey, all these influential people are intimately connected across the strongest possible dimensions (money, sex, belief and legal grey areas), we should probably pay attention to that”
      1. dumberquestions · · focus · HN ↗
        >all these influential people

        And by all you mean 1-2 big names and a bunch of unknowns, with all other big names having no connection to this.

        1. throwthrowuknow · · focus · HN ↗

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