AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult
1.5KSE GygesSeptember 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM MSTI'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) There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author.
- ▪1.5KSE GygesSeptember 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM MSTI'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) There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because
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| Original publisher | Skywriter |
| Canonical URL | https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:36:37 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T08:38:42.663Z |
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1.5KSE GygesSeptember 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM MSTI'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) There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that. This is Eliezer Yudkowsky ("Yud"). We see him here meeting with Bernie Sanders to advise him on AI Policy and arguing about AI Policy in The AI Doc, now on Netflix.This is very senior OpenAI employee and unofficial OpenAI spokesman Roon.
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