Daily LLM user pushes back on doomerism: nobody explains how silly mistakes escalate to killing everyone
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-10
A daily LLM user voices skepticism about AI doom narratives: in everyday use, models just make silly, harmless mistakes, and the lab founders' fantasies about "killing everyone" never come with an explained path from those errors to catastrophe.
He also calls out an avoided contradiction: the genuinely dangerous military scenarios are the ones the labs themselves are actually building, yet doom discourse never ties the two together — because naming that is too uncomfortable.
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