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The what

Tech bros ruining even drugs and group sex, goddammit.

is there like... a video essay that explains this?

That special feeling when you don’t know what the hell happened but you are about to dive down that rabbit hole despite you know you will regret it immensely

I'll just wait for the Behind the Bastards episodes, this is too much to unpack.

*tired. See?

Forgot about all this stuff. I had successfully pushed it out of my brain until now.

BRB, I gotta go mute some more words

yayyyy welcome to the Knowledge About the Harry Potter AI Safety Sex Cult club ian 🥰🎉

I mean, Sam Bankman-Fried's shrimp-powered FTX polycule seems quaint in retrospect.

What in the hell did I miss?

These were the works/ideas men like Eliezer Yudkowsky have based their stuff on.

Found the earliest (1994) article I remember: www.wired.com/1994/10/extr...

It is good to know that JK Rowling is responsible for all the bad things though. This makes things much easier for time travellers.

It's all so gross and annoying

I feel like this would make a good south park sub plot, it's practically written itself.

Steven Universe doesn’t deserve this

Shockingly eloquent description lol

Gonna try to keep it that way, but I'm sure I'll find out eventually.

The arc of something is certainly bending towards something, I'm getting that much.

Please take notes, they're going to be very important

I don't think it will ever make sense, so I guess I have the rest of my life, what's left of it. It's not like I don't know people with odd fixations. That's been true of many of my friends for over 40 years. But they were the weirdos, not the adults in charge. Something is seriously wrong.

I really should have believed you and stopped here when I read this. Consider this a warning to those who come after me: there are deep currents in the dark here, and they are *incredibly* stupid.

I am both happy I am in the blissful ignorance and uneasy because of it....

I have, unfortunately known about it since like 2014 and it didn't make any of the intervening years any better knowing why things were so stupid.

Ian, the moment left me 30 minutes ago and I want it back

watching all of these things from a distance for the ~20 years I have been aware of Y.E. on the internet has been a deeply confusing, frustrating, and depressing experience lol

I'll consider myself /somewhat/ fortunate in that while those words in that particular order are not something I am directly familiar with... I am familiar enough with the with the context of the individual words that I can piece together a context that is likely fairly close. And I hate it.

Yeah no I was like "I do not know what Ian is talking about and no I do not want to learn. No thank you."

Too late for that now, you fucker! I’ve gone down that rabbit hole into hell and your to blame!

*gesturing* in general

The Lily Orchard Apocalypse

This is literally a story line in the world of Werewolf Jones - that's a bad sign lmao

please don't be mean to lord humungus and his entertainment choices

lol but I'm also crying a little

As if someone’s homebrew cards for Magic the gathering had geopolitical…* Because it is the maximally worst

Stackley = whatever the fuck word I didn't know before today.

We were already halfway there when she made that graph.

Filthy tech bros and third-tier Only Fans models control a quarter of the economy, are funding fascism, and hitting it raw in the name of Ayn Rand-coded Harry Potter fan fiction. The "philosopher" at the top of the world's worst fuckpile looks like a muppet. Its the worst timeline.

Like, imagine if, in T2, Miles Dyson was instead a neckbearded SF guy who'd been in a gangbang with a lady who showers twice a month, tops.

I hate that I understand this sentence

[wanders in] they killed kubrick because eyes wide shut was real and now their progeny are a lot more stupid and obvious

I regret to inform you that it's all the same sex cult.

It's moreso that they're afraid of an AI turning us into paperclips.

well, not *specifically*

The fucking W H A T!?

I swear to god I spent 5 minutes trying to fully comprehend that first sentence.

I can't decide if the missing punctuation between those two words should be a comma or an ampersand.

I probably know too much about this and I think I'll just go back to sleep about it

Too damn true!

Sam Bankman-Fried was in a crazy sex cult too. These people just have waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much undeserved wealth.

A dystopia is bad enough, but why does it have to be so, so STUPID?

There’s more than one new religion inspired by Harry Potter

Turn back. Save yourself.

"harry potter AI safety sex cult stuff" man I don't like this updated version of We Didn't Start the Fire

the …

I thought it was when Bowie died and the Cubs won the Series …

Oh dang, other people have got there too?

I blame that poor dead weasel

I made the serious mistake of listening to the Panic World episode recently too. And I am like, why, why do I do this to myself?

I have no idea what any of this means, and I have a feeling that if I did, I’d be lighting things on fire. Maybe it’s time for me to go play animal crossing.

Oh no, the Zizians are victims of said cult.

God dammit. Now I have to go research this because I have no self-control.

And…Zizians too ffs

JK Rowling really will be the death of us all

You do not hate Harry Potter adults enough

I caved and kept reading. Definitely some surprises, but in my wikipedia dive afterwards to confirm some things I rediscovered TESCREAL, Timnit Gebru's great attempt to capture ALL OF... THIS (waved hands) in one term. Never heard about the Potter stuff before though.

Niko, no, save yourself

Yep bsky.app/profile/sifu...

Big same I read the fanfic when I was younger and it had a hold on me for about 6 months before I decided it was the stupidest thing ever and I hated it in the same way a teen hates barny but then I was just objectively correct.

I would have drastically preffered if all of my early millennium forum lore knowledge remained useless.

they built a cult around a harry potter fanfic and a blog, that absolutely should have been the end of it

She was based in Seattle and me in Cambridge, so nope that doesn't necessarily save you haha

Who knew that Los Angeles would turn out to be the responsible, level-headed sibling

Dude!

Micah, we used to mock these assholes relentlessly on SA

The who and the what now?!?

Ironically, that seems the more rational choice.

*its. Sigh.

oh its central flawed premise is that you can convince people of things by being demonstrably right

its sort of a fucked up and sordid thing to know about in general but it unfortunately is also kind of important

“Harry Potter AI safety sex cult” is a hell of a sentence

These are words, but they make no sense to me. And I'm grateful.

The Harry Potter what now