[Barrin92]

The EA people seem to have more than a spurious relationship with polygamy, drugs, orgies and odd-ball ascetic leader figures, doomsday prophecies and psychotic behavior. Taken from the article

" MIRI employee Jessica Taylor had a job that sometimes involved “imagining extreme AI torture scenarios,” as she described it in a post on LessWrong—the worst possible suffering AI might be able to inflict on people. At work, she says, she and a small team of researchers believed “we might make God, but we might mess up and destroy everything.” In 2017 she was hospitalized for three weeks with delusions that she was “intrinsically evil” and “had destroyed significant parts of the world with my demonic powers,”"

This is like what, one bad week away from AI Jonestown? At some point this isn't a community but a cult, and women usually tend to draw the shortest sticks in any cult environemnt with bizarre moneyed, male leader figures.

[yanderekko]

>This is like what, one bad week away from AI Jonestown?

Look at the Ziz story - we're already there. (https://medium.com/@sefashapiro/a-community-warning-about-zi...)

However, this should not severely impugn the community as a whole.