#TIL (Today I Learned) that "Aella", the sex worker who poses as data scientist by sending people questionaires asking about their sex life and who was platformed by Lex Fridman, is running a cult where they preach that AI will kill us all and that doomsday is near … unless, of course, we redirect all our money into "AI Safety startups" to prevent that from happening.

It's all a marketing plot for the most disgusting companies of our time.

Aella is a good friend of Grimes, felon Musk's long-term partner. And that's how Lex Fridman and Aella were introduced to each other.

At Aella's cult named "plzdontkillus", influencers chasing fame and money are first lured in by promises of heaploads of money and then made to crank out one video a day to their followers. Attendants are even subjected to "voluntary" torture methods such as waterboarding.

How is this different from Charles Manson's cult?

The Effective Altruists financing all this also subverted popular YouTube channels such as Hank Green's SciCom.

I've also long grown wary of Kurzgesagt which I watched a lot around 2018–2020.

Meanwhile Peter Thiel is inviting influential people to secret meetups he calls "Dialog" where they can discuss off the records how to build cults. Leaks have shown that besides CEOs of various corporations, even Kaja Kallas of the EU Commission attended the secret Dialog meetings.

Seemingly everyone around you is turning crazy, developing psychosis, or becoming indoctrinated into a cult.

Also meanwhile, uninformed people (for example, your coworkers) think you're a nutcase when you mention any of this and speak out against "AI" at the workplace.

Please stop watching these podcasts. Stop giving these folks your attention. I don't know what else to say.

#LexFridman #TESCREAL #EffectiveAltruism #GenAI #capitalism #ClimateCatastrophe