Continuity Argument Against AI Doom: Extinction Can't Come Overnight

Josh Purtell advances a continuity hypothesis—disaster scale grows continuously with capability and tail-aligned failures—arguing extinction cannot arrive in one step. He cites the Hugging Face crisis as evidence that early disasters would surface and trigger industry-wide pauses, undermining doomsayers' claims of a silent, sudden extinction.

2026-09-14 ~ 2026-09-14 · 3 related posts

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