Skip doomer Yudkowsky, read David Deutsch: scathing takedown of 'If Anyone Builds It'
TheMoonMidas · x · 2026-09-10
An AI-circle book-review skirmish: @jlippincott's scathing review of Yudkowsky and Soares' book calls it rife with speculation, hysteria and absurd logical leaps—especially the hyperventilating over AI being "alien and unintelligible." His counterpoint: human intelligence is itself alien and unintelligible—we don't know why we're conscious or how brains work; humans can't be fully controlled or reprogrammed, have wills, bodies, phenomenal general intelligence and lightning-fast reflexes—"One could go rogue at any moment!"
The poster recommends reading David Deutsch instead of "doomer Yudkowsky." A funny and substantive AI-drama specimen.
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