I really have no objection to drug fueled sex parties TBH.
EDIT: After reading the article, sounds like there’s maybe some sexism and bad power dynamics in play and it’s not even “He said, she said” it’s “there MIGHT be some insinuations that things could be coercive / women could feel pressured to participate / toxic masculinity stuff.” All very non specific.
I figured people were already aware of the drug laced sex parties from when it was crypto instead of ai
Weird choice of title. Clickbaity I guess? It is not about the sex and drugs:
While she said she doesn’t think there’s anything generally wrong with “sex parties and heavy LSD use,” she also charged that the culture surrounding these alleged parties “leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen.”
Would help to be a bit more specific though.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A machine learning researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies in Silicon Valley’s storied hacker houses — and appears to be linking those parties, and the culture surrounding them, to OpenAI.
What follows is a vague and anecdotal diatribe about the “dark side” of startup culture — made particularly explosive by Joseph’s reference to so-called “consensual non-consent” sex parties that she says took place within the artificial general intelligence (AGI) enthusiast community in the valley.
The jumping off point, as far as we can tell, stems from a thread announcing that OpenAI superalignment chief Jan Leike was leaving the company as it dissolved his team that was meant to prevent advanced AI from going rogue.
At the end of his X thread, Leike encouraged remaining employees to “feel the AGI,” a phrase that was also ascribed to newly-exited OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever during seemingly cultish rituals revealed in an Atlantic exposé last year — but nothing in that piece, nor the superalignment chief’s tweets, suggests anything having to do with sex, drugs, or kink.
“I don’t think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite AI researchers have been good for women,” Joseph continued.
“I just observed the surrounding AI culture through the community house scene in SF, as a fly-on-the-wall, hearing insider information and backroom deals, befriending dozens of women and allies and well-meaning parties, and watching many them get burned.”
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