Mfw my doomsday ai cult attracts ai cultists of a flavor I don't like
Not a fan of yud but getting daily emails from delulus would drive me to wish for the basilisk
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Is the whole x risk thing as common outside of North America? Realizing I've never seen anyone from outside the anglosphere or even just America/Canada be as God killingly Rational as the usual suspects
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-after-an-ai-chatbot-encouraged-him-to-sacrifice-himself-to-stop-climate-
First reported suicide caused/encouraged/suggested by AI was a Belgian man as far as I can find. Stupidity and susception to gullibility is not an isolated American trait
True but specifically was referring to researchers since most of the researchers repping extinction risk are LW or yud influenced (Musk, Hinton, etc)