Mining 1.5M EA Forum Posts Resurfaces Yudkowsky's Controversial Writings on AI Safety
mark_k · x · 2026-09-25
- DataRepublican says her earlier heuristic over 1.5M Effective Altruist forum posts missed much material; prompted by @perrymetzger, she found Yudkowsky discussing baby-eating, BSDM theorizing, and related topics in contexts tied to his AI safety views
- She adds it's not just Anthropic 'compromised' by EAs — OpenAI's Altman has suggested Yudkowsky might deserve a Nobel prize
- The quoted essay 'AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley' maps Yudkowsky, rationalism, Bay Area EA, and AI safety ideology — a major AI-community drama thread
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