AI safety drama flares as a meme becomes the new in-group target

AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-07-28

A post in the AI safety circle says it's “embarrassing” for safety people to bully someone over a meme, while also joking about the speaker’s own p(doom) being 60%.

The point is less about the meme itself and more about the culture clash: serious AI-risk discourse turning into public in-group drama.

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