Researcher mocks pdoom rhetoric: 'basic stats 101' as a moral cudgel
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-11
A clearly sarcastic post parodying the rhetorical moves common in AI-doom discourse: claim an extinction-level outcome makes the expected value negative infinity regardless of probability, then layer on moral pressure — "basic stats 101," "don't you care about humanity," "aren't you a big thinker?" The author uses exaggerated tone to argue that such arguments substitute framing and moral shaming for genuine probabilistic reasoning.
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