X users revisit MIRI-era doomer predictions: no fire alarm, just commercialization
jd_pressman · x · 2026-09-10
jdpressman reflects that reading Yudkowsky and Bostrom as a teenager left the impression real AI would arrive silently from a basement team of geniuses, with no announcement and no fire alarm — and that nanobots would kill him 'because MIRI failed'. He contrasts this with reality: AI has been commercialized and deployed gradually, undermining the classic doomer framing that AI simply wouldn't work until minutes from ASI.
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