Aella: Sex and Ideology in the 21st Century | Doomscroll

Maybe we're just going to outsource all decisions to the great AI god, assuming it doesn't kill us all. If it doesn't kill us all, we're probably in a singularity, a glorious transhumanist future singularity, uh, where somehow we have a hyper powerful aligned AI. How do you envision AI girlfriends? I'm more worried about AI boyfriends for what it's worth.

I think AI boyfriends will be significantly more disruptive. Very few people talk about this except the transhumanist and the anarco primitivists. Ultimately, assuming we don't all die from AI, which I think is probably going to happen. Pornography is a spell that sucks your vill through the screen.

So mostly it was just a giant horde of ladies that would all have sex with each other and that was my life for a while. It was great. Welcome to Doomscroll. I'm your host Joshua Citerella.

My guest is Aya, a writer, blogger, and sex worker. She is a member of the rationalist community less wrong. In an interview with Reason magazine, you said that trauma is culturally determined. Can we explore that idea?

Um, well, culture is very relative. I mean, I just just now wrote an article, so this is top of mind where I was looking at a bunch of like child wearing methods throughout history. Let's imagine you're a child here today and then your parents like give you off to some random strangers who then hammer sticks into your nose such that you just bleed profusely from your nose and then they force you to go put on weird clothes and then suck a dick of a larger man of a old boy. Um, so and they're just like, "You have to swallow.

You're eight years old at this point. Okay. Um and uh you would probably Okay. Okay.

Glad this is working for you. Um you would probably uh be pretty traumatized by this. Like you could if this happened to me, I would be like, "This happened to me when I was a child." And you'd be like, "Oh my god." Um I would probably write a book about it. Um, you could be like, "Did you go to therapy?

Are you okay? Did you have nightmares about this?" But this is the thing that happened to every single child in the Simbari culture in Papa New Guinea. This is just the ...