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1. panny · 1791136228 · focus · HN ↗

   My entire opinion of AI safety has been colored by the fact that I recently learned AI safety is a sex cult.

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   1. bryan0 · 1791137633 · focus · HN ↗

      This reminds me of during covid, when one of the biggest public proponents of vaccines in the UK was having an affair. The anti-vaxers then, instead of focusing on whether vaccines were helpful, focused on the affair. That allowed them to dismiss the pro-vaccine point of view without actually engaging on the merits of their argument.

      1. harvey9 · 1791138208 · focus · HN ↗

         In conducting his affair he was breaking the lockdown rules that he had written, which harmed their credibility. The antivax crowd (I am not a member) quite reasonably extrapolated that if the architect of lockdown was not locking himself down then he wasn&#x27;t too worried about the virus, ergo vaccines were being oversold. When you are a public figure like that then the personal is political.

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