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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. bryant · · focus · HN ↗
        Not opining on this one way or another, but the post buries the lede a bit with a one liner that explains where it's coming from, saying that this is all:

        > reasonable evidence that their influence isn't prevalent because they're right, and that they would have ulterior motives for continuing to preach that the world is coming to an end even if evidence showed otherwise.

        1. vintermann · · focus · HN ↗
          Heh, if you think this post buries the lede, have you ever read anything by the community in question? They seem incapable of saying anything without five part Roman-numbered novel length blog posts.

          I think this article kind of misses a crucial point. They weren't always AI doomers, that's a thing they picked up along the way. Their core beliefs are 1. That they are the smartest, and 2. That this makes them morally superior because consequentialism (This sort of follows. If you believe in consequentialism, leaving all your decisions to the superior consequence predictor is surely the moral thing to do)

          Maybe one day they will stop believing in AI doom, but they will never, ever stop believing they belong to the intellectually and thus morally elect. The day any of them do that they have either broken with the cult or died.

          1. bombcar · · focus · HN ↗
            > They seem incapable of saying anything without five part Roman-numbered novel length blog posts.

            Maybe that’s why they’re so pissed, ChatGPT’s useless verbosity is threatening to put them out of a job.

            1. vintermann · · focus · HN ↗
              I'm tempted to say "You're absolutely right" :)

              yeah, it's no coincidence that AIs sound a bit like them -- a lot of the people doing the instruction tuning are affiliated with these people.

              And it's also a profound self-identity threat to them if that kind of intelligence is nothing special.

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