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Articles on rationalist-adjacent cults: the Zizians, Leverage Research, and the darker outgrowths of the rationalist / LessWrong-derived / Aella polycule scene that is behind "AI Safety" in Silicon Valley. Working thesis: MIRI and CFAR read as high-control groups (cults) who believe in P(DOOM) and use sex (and power) maliciously — yet they are unfortunately the ones who have captured the framing of "AI Safety," which has little to do with actual safety.
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Learnings from a week in the wet lab — LessWrong
First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority.
#13: A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Effective Altruism Funded the “AI Existential Risk” Ecosystem with Half a Billion Dollars
Think tank tied to tech billionaires played key role in Biden’s AI order
Congress warns science agency over AI grant to tech-linked think tank