The doomer who joins a frontier lab to speed up humanity's demise
airkatakana · x · 2026-09-10
A dark-humor tweet mocking a contradictory archetype: a doomer who believes AI has a 100% chance of wiping out humanity, yet works on capabilities at a frontier lab to "get it over with faster." It pokes fun at the absurd tension between safety concerns and capability work in AI circles.
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