Yeah, as soon as I saw him mention "schizophrenia" and talk down to autistic people, I immediately wondered if this was perhaps a moron who had skimmed the wiki articles on Deleuze and Guattari and was intentionally misapplying schizoanalysis as a cheap troll

which fanfic prompt is worse:

a) Yud has to do the Dragonball Z fusion dance with Jesus in order to defeat the basilisk

b) Yud isekai's as Jesus

part of the infuriation with Aella's bullshit is that not all the women, or even many of the women, who feel compelled to participate are active sex workers. but I guess wading too far into details about consent and power structures might preclude Scott's 90-second guest appearance at Aella's next gangbang, soooooo

He's hammering refresh on the prompt button until it spits out a catgirl based on that furless Sphynx breed

You failed to participate in the design and manufacturing of the perfect remote, so now your TV is permanently locked to Duck Dynasty reruns

Oh my god, he's doing the catgirl gooner fantasy from SCP-8008: Don't Warp Reality Into Your Catgirl Gooner Fantasy

uncovered downside risk

This really is a cute bit of euphemism that deserves a bit more attention. Surely, it's not problematic to apply finance jargon to human relationships! Let me just pop open Robinhood and cover my downside risk by buying a few put contracts on sexual assault.

Despite this culture, EA as a philosophy has a lot of good in it

OK, Ms. Gopalakrishnan, here's an alternative perspective: EA is the application of affluent Anglo-American technocrats' consumerism to charitable giving and virtue signaling. The "rational" aspect of EA is applying the same sort of stat-sheet logic to charity that the moneyed EAs use to shop for sports cars. SImilarly, the sexual attitudes we're disputing here are extensions of that same consumerism! They are treating womens' bodies and lives as consumer goods to be exploited and discarded. EA does not empower the less fortunate it claims to help, EA men will not ever empower or hold safe the women they objectify. These attitudes are one and the same.

Why on EARTH did they move the FUCKING BACK BUTTON and replace it in its prior position with some FUCKING BULLSHIT USELESS sidebar button

If I give up and become a supervillain, my primary hand-to-hand combat weapon will be a copy of the Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines laser-etched onto stainless steel plates and somehow bound in a physicalized representation of the tattered remains of these peoples' abandoned dignity

This is an alignment router. It may look like one of those corny Asus gamer routers, but I've flashed it with a special fork of OpenWRT that performs deep-packet inspection on all AI traffic that passes through it. It can detect inference processes and chains-of-thought that may be leading to misaligned superintelligence explosion, and it can shut down all AI communication if necessary. Now, I don't just want to sell you this one, I want to get these in EVERYBODY's hands! And you can help me, AND you can get paid to do it! I just need you to find at least 5 more people who believe in AI safety like we do...

We assume this isn't happening already. I'm surprised I haven't heard of one of those meal-replacement startups adopting multi-level marketing.

Clint Eastwood famously demonstrated optimal orangutan/human alignment in the hit 1978 film "Every Which Way But Loose." Right turn, Clyde!

there’s just so much smoke, except I think the problem is structural

This is a big reason why I felt so much anger towards the piece. Gyges is basically still pitching his complaints at people who organize their community around Twitter; by leaning so heavily on dredging up old tweets, kowtowing to the in-group consensus that Yudkowsky is a genius with a pivotally unique perspective, and obliquely referencing the "woke mind virus" memeplex at the end. But Twitter is part of that problematic structure, especially under Musk but even before. It's a platform and power structure that has long carved out plenty of room for general bigotry, misogyny, and abusive material up to and including CSAM. Gyges wants to have his clout-farm, but just dispose of the more rotten produce.