Everything is exploding (meetups, announcements, wtf is going on)

Everything is exploding (meetups, announcements, wtf is going on)

AI! Sluts! Viscerally terrifying self-knowledge!

Aella

Sep 13, 2026

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If you’re online at all, you’ve seen the AI discourse suddenly explode. Sam Altman, Dario, even Elon have tweeted about slowing down. Congresspeople are signing stuff. People are arguing it’s all a conspiracy theory. My social circle is buzzing like someone just poured water into their anthill. There’s desperation and hope in the air.

If you want to catch the wave and talk about this with other people, you’re invited to a Berkeley meetup on Monday, Sept 14th. We’ll have people from Redwood, an org that was involved in investigating OpenAI. We’ll have some of the people who helped find the german wiki swarm, as well as people from orgs working on communication in this field, and people like Rosie Campbell (Former OpenAI policy researcher, managing director of Eleos AI Research). They’ll be hanging out if you want to chat. I’ll also be there! Come say hi.

RSVP here

. You can also sign up to get notified for future events at

Extinction Is Optional.

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Slutcon

is in a week and a half! It’s going to be

very good.

I’m not sure how to handle the branding issue. I’ve heard people say well - they’re interested, but

a) is it not lame to spend a bunch of money to learn how to get laid better, is this not admitting you’re bad at sex?

No, it’s not admitting you’re bad at sex. I just started dating a new guy who is

incredible

at oral, like somehow shoots an orgasm into me with a 3-4 minute average. My previous partner is very good at sex (legendarily good, according to my female friend group). And this man went and messaged my new partner going ‘hey I hear you’re good at oral sex, any tips?’

You do not become a legendary master at sex by having an ego that prevents you from acquiring new information. Sex is a

really hard

thing to get a properly robust education about, because your access to sex partners is limited and often intensely biased by your specific dynamics. Almost nobody on the planet, regardless of skill, has had access to actually elite, generalizable training.

I would

love

if the guys I had sex with, were better at sex. The guys I have great sex with, have put significant, concentrated attention into getting better at sex. This might look different - for some it might be exercise and stamina, for others embodiment - but being able to blow a woman’s mind is

awesome

and men who assume it comes naturally are usually

bad at sex.

b) is this not gonna be full of lonely sad awkward dudes and no girls?

It will have maybe a handful of lonely sad awkward dudes, who are very much welcome here and I think will get a huge benefit from Slutcon. We also have a bunch of men who already have partners, sometimes multiple partners.

And more importantly, we currently have

1:1 gender ratio (

excluding volunteers)

.

We’re actively turning away women at this point. Women are banging down the door to be flirt girls. We are overwhelmed with female interest. It’s interesting to me how much women like this - I think the recent cultural paranoia around ‘not making women feel uncomfortable’ has led to way fewer women getting hit on in general, and this has led to a huge demand among a subset of women to experience a world with greater sexual tension.

c)

why is it so expensive

Last year was slightly a clusterfuck, as it was our first time. This year we’re moving away from ‘conference’ and more towards ‘intensive workshop’. Most of the sessions should be small groups, where you’ll be able to work or talk with presenters more directly. We’re also running a flirt girl training beforehand, which gives ladies some instruction on how to notice what’s actually going on for them in an honest, compassionate way, and be able to explain this to those they talk to. We want fewer attendees, but with a much higher-quality experience. I think it’s gonna be awesome.

If you’re on the fence, you should

get off the fence, come and say hi

and shamelessly hit on me. I love getting catcalled.

I made a site (

Study Of Us

) where you can:

a) get pairs of other people’s faces, vote on who you prefer, and unlock a bunch of data on the kinds of people you’re drawn to. This data is based on surveys that the submitters took, so it’s real. Wanna know if you’re into bpd chicks? This survey can tell you.

Here’s my taste in men, apparently! This is literally only based on me picking faces.

b) submit your own photo, take a survey, and get a ton of data on the kinds of people who prefer your photo.

Here’s a bit of mine:

there’s way more info than this!

Right now the rankings are done on a bell curve, so you’re a perfectly normal, average human if you score 50%. If you’re above 80% you’re probably unusually sexy; 95%+ is supermodel, you warp the world about you as you move through this plane of existence.

Keep in mind people are rating

photos

. Different photos will score differently.

Also, don’t be too disheartened if your photo scores poorly. The new guy I’m dating is quite sexually popular among my friend group and is very cute, yet somehow so unphotogenic his photo scored around 20%. You should treat this site as figuring out which photo is better

relative to your other photos

, and less like, how much does this indicate people wanna bang you.

This type of site needs a steady trickle of views for it to work, and I think this requires some sort of regular advertising purchase spot? All my attempts to buy normal advertising spots have been rejected (e.g. ‘gooner’ appears on the site) so I’ve been struggling a lot. If you have advice on this, let me know! I do also have a referral program; if you would organically love to talk about this site yourself, discuss your results, and then also get paid, maybe comment or email me or something so I can try to set you up.

Sorry I haven’t been posting too much normal posts; I am

absolutely

swamped with everything exploding. I plan to get back on the horse soon, and possibly with a lot of juicy content to report about everything that’s been going on. <3 I appreciate you guys.

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