'AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley' Substack sets AI Twitter ablaze
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-25
A Substack post titled "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" by SE Gyges is tearing through AI Twitter, with journalist Taylor Lorenz amplifying it. AIFlowML summarized its key threads: group houses, doom money, FTX, and a glossary of rationalist jargon.
The piece argues the intellectual core of AI Safety traces to Eliezer Yudkowsky's circle, citing OpenAI's Roon publicly calling it a sex cult while still taking Yudkowsky's ideas seriously. The author's punchline: these people shouldn't write AI policy — yet they influence real rules. It also traces SBF/FTX funding and the layered denials of Effective Altruism influence.
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