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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

234 points · 279 comments · Anon84

  1. petesergeant · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm going to be fucking irritated if we all die because BlueSky posters wanted to take pot-shots at the EA crowd. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is _also_ a story about how a community lost a child because of cynicism, and the people proudly declaring that they "know" every safety concern is just a marketing ploy also concerns me.
    1. lbrito · · focus · HN ↗
      I'd rather have the world end than live in a world where EAs are listened to or respected.
      1. againstapples · · focus · HN ↗
        I agree they’re kinda weird but are they really that bad?
        1. jplusequalt · · focus · HN ↗
          Yes. Sam Bankman Fried was/is an EA/rationalist (on the short list of biggest fraudsters in American history). So are the Zizian's (a murder cult). etc. etc.
          1. Viliam1234 · · focus · HN ↗
            SBF maybe, but Ziz declared rationalists to be their main enemy
            1. shimman · · focus · HN ↗
              Yeah, similar to like how southern baptists declared evangelicals to be their enemy too for not being fanatical enough.

              Death cults are weird like that.

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