The dread of frontier AI is about novelty, not the object level
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-26
The author discusses the psychology of frontier AI workers versus 'normies'. A cited view argues that normies can't imagine someone sincerely working on potentially cataclysmic AI without being amoral or ideologically captured. The author counters that normies willingly work for 'Rapture' or MIC strategic arms, suggesting the dread stems from the novelty of AI rather than the object-level danger.
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