Prateek calls Dwarkesh's new article perfect ragebait: alarmist yet wrong
prateekj · x · 2026-09-01
Prateek argues Dwarkesh's recent article was fairly misleading, but if the goal was clicks, it was perfect ragebait: alarmist enough that AI doomers happily amplified it, and inaccurate enough that AI researchers keep correcting it—driving engagement from both sides.
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