VC compares AI doom rhetoric to pandemic-era fear messaging
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-11
Stewart Alsop III argues the same fear-based messaging pattern repeats across issues — "two weeks to slow the spread," "safe and effective vaccines," and now "LLMs make dumb mistakes but will kill us all tomorrow" — mocking current AI doomer rhetoric.
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