SE Gyges

segyges.bsky.social

19 September 2026 00:21

e/acc, distinct from EA, is a rival ideology about technology. (somewhere in this mix someone called me e/acc. i am not. if you're going to classify me in this space, i am something like a Kurzweilian h+ e/acc is a troll ideology for upsetting EA people and scamming pmarca.)

SE Gyges

segyges.bsky.social

19 September 2026 00:21

So my first point is that since they use sex as recruitment and ideological enforcement, no, sorry, the sex is relevant. See here clearly using sex as ideological control. Aella offers sex as incentive to quit and blow the whistle on Anthropic. Three days later, someone does. Prob a coincidence

SE Gyges

segyges.bsky.social

19 September 2026 00:21

Yudkowsky is the major thought-leader about AI and the paperclipper specifically, and Dario/Anthropic are actually a rival faction in their movement. The rationalist "stop research forever" faction at Lighthaven is still the most influential concerning how people think of AI risk, though $$-starved

SE Gyges

segyges.bsky.social

19 September 2026 00:21

So the rationalist tribe has been losing its war for money and attention in the space to EA and Anthropic for a while, and they are getting more desperate, and it kind of seems like Aella specifically is effectively the cultural leader of rationalism right now.

SE Gyges

segyges.bsky.social

19 September 2026 00:20

Back in days of yore, anything sex-cult-like involving MIRI was probably not the main event. People believed in the cause, and gave money to that specific org, and &c, &c As time has gone on, many who noticed that "rationalism" was the house of yud, and disgraceful, have rebranded as "EA".