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TLDR: awareness of the SV "rationalist" polycule has breached containment and normies are reading about it now. [0]
Maybe a "better" source is the NY Post article [1]. The information itself isn't really news - it's even largely available on wikipedia [2] [3] - but the fact that it's hitting mainstream-adjacent news outlets is novel.
> Yudkowsky's most viral idea, the one that infects the most people and spreads the farthest, is that AI, if we continue to develop it, will inevitably 1) achieve superintelligence ("RSI"), 2) escape human control 2) kill everyone ("paperclip them", "doom")
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Maybe a "better" source is the NY Post article [1]. The information itself isn't really news - it's even largely available on wikipedia [2] [3] - but the fact that it's hitting mainstream-adjacent news outlets is novel.
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[1] <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/business/ai-doomsayers-wild-life-with-onlyfans-star-includes-birthday-sex-parties-extreme-kinks-and-slutcon/" rel="nofollow">https://nypost.com/2026/09/16/business/ai-doomsayers-wild-li...
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aella_(writer)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aella_(writer)
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalist_community
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> Yudkowsky's most viral idea, the one that infects the most people and spreads the farthest, is that AI, if we continue to develop it, will inevitably 1) achieve superintelligence ("RSI"), 2) escape human control 2) kill everyone ("paperclip them", "doom")
That's too many twos!