AI safety community infighting: EA "cultists" accused of abandoning truth and human dignity
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-14
- Quoted tweet from @basedjensen claims everyone in AI labs believes the predicted "disaster" will be a false flag carried out by EA cultists, which labs could exploit.
- Reposter @curiousvii fires back sharply: these "cultists" are "unmoored from common goodness and Truth itself," neither believing in human dignity nor that ends don't justify means — "misanthropic self-worshipers pretending to be Benthamite utilitarians."
- Advises readers not to submit if some "Irregular" event catalyzes calls for totalitarian concentration of secular power.
- Reflects deepening factional rifts within the AI safety / EA community.
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