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"The industry upon which the entire global stock market currently depends – and which is developing the most significant new technology in decades – is largely run by members of a nerdy doomsday sex cult" It's true, but you sound pretty crazy saying it out loud.

Separating out real AI risk means you have to somehow be able to separate out what is: 1. Usual big tech hype 2. Clever lobbying for 'regulation' that helps AI companies 3. Sci-fi/cult informed BS 4. Group hysteria 5. Legitimate warnings grounded in reality. Good luck trying to unpick that!

Don't forget the LSD. I feel like everyone is focusing on the sex cult thing and forgetting the LSD. The LSD actually makes a lot of things suddenly make sense

Honestly I think the nerdy matters more than either, though the cocktail matters: this is your brain on sci-fi and hallucinogens

Believing you're convening with a higher power who speaks only to you on a higher plane of communication mere mortals could never understand as you gain sudden and total comprehension of the entire universe, along with the realisation it will come to an end...