[jandrese]

No offense, but a Lesswrong link is an immediate yellow flag, especially on the topic of AI. I can’t say if that article in particular is bad, but it is associating with a whole lot of abject nonsense written by people who get high on their own farts.

[hexaga]

Regardless, it is the origin of abliteration. Other extremely similar things have been done before, but the popularized idea/name is from that.