SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured. https://archive.ph/3B8Bo original thread: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q so it's probably important to know this stuff. but it's important to remember that Gyges is a rationalist who insists he isn't a rationalist, a solid AI doomsday believer who tried for the longest time to hide his power level, and someone who *seriously believes* that you can say slurs against a computer (he compiled the blocklists "AI slur user" and "AI hater" on bluesky). it's nice to see someone listing all this stuff but also these are the grains of salt you have to take this writeup with. anyway, TESCREAL is a cult and Gyges seems to be under the impression he's out of the cult in any meaningful way.