David Boree

And it's a bummer of a story.

Sonya was 14 when she first read Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is set her on the path that led her to moving to the Bay Area in order to get involved in the rationalist EA set.

And she's focused on the field of AI risk.

And I'm going to read a quote.

It's it's it's it's never drops too far below the surface.

I cannot overemphasize how important this Harry Potter fan fiction is to all these murders.

I mean, this is like primary text, right?

And this woman getting abused.

Yes.

Yes.

It's a primary text of the movement.

Wow.

I'm going to read a quote from that Bloomberg article.

Sonya was encouraged when she was 22 to have dinner with a 40-ish startup founder in the rationalist sphere because he had a close connection to Peter Thiel.

At dinner, the man bragged that Yudkowsky had modeled a core Harry Potter professor in that fanfic on him.

Joseph says that he also argued that it was normal for a 12-year-old girl to have sexual relationships with adult men and that such relationships were a noble way of transferring knowledge to a younger generation.

Then she says he followed her home and insisted on staying over.

She says he slept on the floor of her living room and that she felt unsafe until he left in the morning.

Jesus.

So great, you know, bragging about your Harry Potter, how you helped inspire the Harry Potter fanfic, and then explaining how 12-year-old girls should have sex with adult men.