Opinion: EA and x-risk Communities Accurately Predicted and Built the AI Future
generativist · x · 2026-08-11
A highly amplified tweet points out that while many VC and executive types enjoy going on anti-doomer rants, the Effective Altruism (EA) and existential risk (x-risk) communities both accurately predicted the future and built it themselves. This contrasts with the rest of the tech world, which was busy shilling crypto scams during the same period, creating a hard credibility gap for critics to close.
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