Katja Grace: doom isn't a utopia trade-off — utopia is a destination, doom is bad directions
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-11
Nathan Young highlights an argument from Katja Grace he hasn't seen before: doom and utopia are not the same kind of thing. Utopia is a destination; doom is a (bad) set of directions. Framing AI futures as a symmetric bet on good vs. bad end-states is a category error — full argument in the linked piece.
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