AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

olalonde•about 2 hours ago

https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/1874676723910098955

24 showers and 71 crying sessions in a year. That lifestyle doesn't seem particularly healthy...

happytoexplain•about 2 hours ago

What's the intent of this comment?

Edit: I.e. are you implying something about the submitted writeup? Or just demeaning her? Or something else?

hax0ron3•about 2 hours ago

Having a crying session every 5 days doesn't seem very healthy to me, but showering once every 2 weeks might be fine. I've gone many days without showering many times in my life and nothing bad ever happened to me as a result. I'd usually shower before going out and interacting with people, but when sitting at home there just never seemed to be any point to it. And Aella's showering habits haven't stopped her from reaching her goals, so it doesn't really matter.

tkel•about 1 hour ago

It's actually unhealthy that you think it's unhealthy to cry regularly. Perhaps you have trouble processing your emotions and just bottle them up instead, causing them to leak out in other situations or lead to outbursts?

hax0ron3•about 1 hour ago

I should clarify. I don't think it's unhealthy to cry every 5 days. I think it might be unhealthy to have the sort of mental state that makes you want to cry every 5 days. It's the underlying psychological situation that might be unhealthy, not the outlet of crying.

olalonde•about 1 hour ago

I haven't cried in years and no outbursts... What makes you cry so often?

jawilson2•about 1 hour ago

Here, I was going to say it's actually unhealthy to shower twice a month. This is some super-power nose blindness.

an0malous•about 2 hours ago

I used to read a lot of LessWrong, Yudkowsky, SlateStarCodex. Rationalism is really just another religion, with the faith parts carefully tucked away underneath concepts like priors or how one chooses to construct a model or assign/“update” probabilities. Their god is ASI. Their beliefs have no more fundamental basis in truth than any other faith.

There’s also a fundamental problem with the idea of using models and probabilities for decision making in that one has to choose a model before deducing any facts, and this leads to all sorts of post hoc rationalization. It’s basically just a culture of people with weird preferences coming up with mathy rationalizations for them.

glitchc•about 2 hours ago

It seems unfair to conflate the rationalism of Berkeley, Locke, Russell and Hitchens who hold critical thinking in the highest regard, to AI maximalists, who seem to be using rationalidm mainly as a cover for their own pet ideas on social reengineering.

The former is mainly about being true to the scientific process of evidence-led discovery, while the latter is... whatever it is (but rational it is not). From a critical thinking perspective, there is no evidence to suggest the current form of AI could achieve superintelligence, and mechanisms that could enable ASI have not been discovered yet. Their perspective, on the other hand, is far more activist.

an0malous•about 1 hour ago

I meant the modern community, I think they adopt the same “Rationalism” name. Basically the LessWrong community but HN is also pretty adjacent.

ChrisArchitect•about 2 hours ago

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49737985

epsteingpt•about 2 hours ago

mushi_shi•about 2 hours ago

The hubris is probably more damning than the fact it's a sex cult. Or at least an incestuous clique.

AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

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