Why I'm 0% Worried About AI Killing Everyone: The Case Against Apocalypse Thinking
granawkins · x · 2026-09-04
Blogger RichDecibels lays out why he assigns 0% probability to worry about AI killing everyone: evidence so far points to profoundly positive, negative, and inconceivable outcomes mixed together, with no reason outcomes would irrevocably cluster negative. His arguments: our psychology equates safety with predictability, so uncertainty feels like extreme danger; once "infinite negative utility" enters your cognition you lose rationality, as in every cult in history; humans are imprinted by the grammar of apocalypse—climate doom, peak oil, nuclear winter—all variations of the Hell myth; and humanity is the species with the most adaptability and resilience.
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