If You Claim Double-Digit Doom Odds, Show Your Work
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-11
Austen argues that anyone assigning a double-digit percentage to humanity's destruction within the next decade owes the public a detailed breakdown of how they reached that number. Dan Jeffries amplified the point — a brief exchange in the ongoing debate over the falsifiability of p(doom) claims in AI safety circles.
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