AI Safety vs Accelerationist Feud Escalates Into Personal Attacks and Accusations
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-17
An AI safety community member amplifies a rebuttal to attacks calling safety researchers "perverts and deviants": the day before, accelerationist accounts were sharing an anti-safety thread by a self-described "pedophile eugenicist" who wrote "Racism is good, pedophilia is bad. I say this as someone who is both." The poster argues this kind of figure could only be promoted on the tech right, framing the feud as projection.
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