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Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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I genuinely feel bad for Eliezer Yudkowsky and his partner over the very real terror they seem to feel about AI killing us all - but these are not well people and they need therapy, not insanely influential advisory roles at the top of government and industry. time.com/6266923/ai-e...

“Eliezer Yudkowsky is in a wacky AI sex cult, and also he is one of the most powerful philosophers of this century and I take him quite seriously” is apparently a common take amongst high-level OpenAI employees. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

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“Yudkowsky is the person who connected Shane Legg and Demis Hassabis to Peter Thiel so that they could secure funding to start DeepMind, which is now Google's AI research division.” Yep, that’s the wacky sex cult AI doomer guy proving instrumental in Peter Thiel funding DeepMind.

verysane.aiAI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, CaliforniaWe might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.

<cringing in polyamory every time 'sex cult' terminology sets back human rights> the sex is FINE if there's consent the CULT part implies there's not these are NOT consent-valuing folks but ARE they rapists, coercive, or are they just profiteers who all like banging each other?

And once again, here’s OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2023, praising wacky AI sex cult blogger Eliezer Yudkowsky and speculating on if he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize:

"I've been associating with rationalists for nearly a decade" So since you were what, sixteen? Seventeen? Yeah that tracks, doesn't it.

Almost the entire US technology policy space has been taken over by rich funders and consultants who genuinely believe the below wackadoodle sci-fi AI scenario is extremely likely, and that preventing it is the most important thing we could be doing right now. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Amongst everything else here, it's also a problem that these people are obsessed with the idea they have special brains and no one can comprehend what they want. There are plenty of business people and science people, they can use normal words. But that doesn't sound very exciting to investors

'He is a good man and has done much to save the world' sounds a whole lot less like admiration than it does worship. Of the sex cult guy, which you've admitted is a sex cult guy? Whew.