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Yes, there is a deranged millenarian sex cult running much of the immensely powerful US AI industry. No, we are not making this up, and you need to know about it. Read this:

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

17/9/26, 2:50 am55 reposts201 likes

Chris Dawe

@ctdawe.bsky.social

17 Sept

I’m trying to follow it, and good grief.

Creep-uscular Canard

@turnitup5000db.bsky.social

17 Sept

I mean I suspect more than ONE but this is the one with the face

Jeff

@jefffreyspies.bsky.social

17 Sept

Reading the description I couldn’t help but think it sounds a lot like some of the Dutch Anabaptists of the mid-to-late Reformation. Or possibly the weirder elements of the German Gymnasium movement of the late 19th C. Amazing how even the crazy isn’t new anymore.

Jeff

@jefffreyspies.bsky.social

17 Sept

Cc: @lollardfish.bsky.social @goingmedieval.bsky.social

opus reticulatum

@forestoffaun.bsky.social

17 Sept

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN AELLA IS JUST A BLOGGER AND FORMER CAMGIRL THERE IS NO GODDAMN WAY

Doll

@dollspace.gay

17 Sept

The worst part about it is that AI is actually a powerful technology and people claiming it doesnt work *are helping the cultists* right now without realizing it.