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So about that batshit insane AI millenarian Silicon Valley sex cult running much of big tech….from Sonia Joseph: siliconvalleynotes.substack.com/p/agi-cnc-an...

I don’t think it does critics of that circle any favors to call it a “sex cult.“ Whether us boring, monogamous vanilla normies want to believe it or not, there are a lot of people who participate in polyamory, sex parties, etc. Calling it a cult as a result just costs people credibility. 

I'm going to be sorry I asked, but wtf is consensual non-consent?

Yo act out a fantasy rp in which you are not consenting. Also known for it's more vulgar name "rape play" I have engaged in it before as the bottom, and you need such a strong trust in the other for it to be safe there is no way the techbro party version of it does not devolve to actual tape

you stop being able to play the “we are but a smol bean polycule like anybody else in a coastal city” card when billions of dollars and vast power are involved

Perhaps he would prefer "High control group that uses sex as a means to that end"?

And coerced CNC sex parties are... 100% a cult thing. Hey, they are **diagnostic** of a cult.

Yeah, see, I don’t see the mere correlation of money and non-vanilla sex automatically making it a cult. That would make any random M&A attorneys having a three way into a cult. That’s just silly. If the sex is somehow part of a power hierarchy, then fine, but I haven’t seen that suggested.

Quite frankly this strikes me as a willfully obtuse attitude.

Pretty sure a three-way with M&A attorneys is called a joint venture.

Do you think there's any ethical way for an employer to invite his subordinate, or an investor to invite someone seeking his investment, to a sex party?

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you for spelling it out so clearly! My brain just did not make that connection 😖 (too distracted by people saying how the Sankey chart is a cognitohazard and me being confused about why they're so upset someone decided to chart their own gangbang)

As @soniajoseph.bsky.social says, context is everything in understanding consent. Back in 2018, I wrote an essay exploring tech’s antipathy to consent, both rooted in, and reifying, patriarchy. It’s only gotten worse with AI.

I’m only peripherally aware of the kink scene, but I’m pretty sure adding LSD and workplace hierarchies to the mix takes the consent out of CNC.