AI Doom Narratives Spread Because They're Tractable, Argues Former Amazon Director dbasch
dbasch · x · 2026-09-10
- dbasch notes humans ignore countless nonzero-probability horrors, yet fixate on AI doom.
- His point: scenarios where AI doesn't destroy humanity are abundant but banal or impossible to reason about.
- AI doom is uniquely tractable and narratively appealing — that's why it dominates discourse.
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