Rationalist Slutcon Safety Drama Draws Scorn: "Massive Update Against the Movement's Intelligence"
_ueaj · x · 2026-09-27
Blogger @ueaj says the slutcon-safety drama significantly lowers his estimate of the rationalist movement's intelligence, citing semantic games, deontological nonsense, and motivated reasoning — accusing the community of compromising its rationality over "weird sex stuff" while denying it. He adds he's not claiming to be better, "just not worse." The episode is the latest governance and PR crisis in the rationalist/AI-safety scene.
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