Mocking AI Doomerism: A Secular Pascal's Wager
ctjlewis · x · 2026-07-18
The post uses a meme to mock the extreme doomsday rhetoric of certain figures in the AI safety community. The author jokingly refers to the alarmist warning that "developing AGI will lead to the extinction of humanity" as a "hysterical, secular version of Pascal's Wager."
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