1. Post in !techtakes@awful.systems attacks the entire concept of AI safety as a made-up boogeyman
2. I disagree and am attacked from all sides for “posting like an evangelist”
3. I give citations for things I thought would be obvious, such as that AI technology in general has been improving in capability compared to several years ago
4. Instance ban, “promptfondling evangelist”

This one I’m not aggrieved about as much, it’s just weird. It’s reminiscent of the lemmy.ml type of echo chamber where everyone’s convinced it’s one way, because in a self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone who is not convinced gets yelled at and receives a ban.

Full context: https://ponder.cat/post/1030285 (Some of my replies were after the ban because I didn’t PT Barnum carefully enough, so didn’t realize.)