Accelerationist fires back at AI doomers: beliefs aren't arguments
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-11
- Dan Jeffries publishes a long rebuttal of AI doomer rhetoric, calling it "an insult to rationality."
- He catalogs their tactics: opening with ad hominems ("AI lunatics") while accusing the other side of the same, sealioning (false-politeness feigned reasonableness), and treating beliefs as arguments — insisting beliefs are irrelevant to logic.
- He argues predicting doom from a nonexistent technology (superintelligence) is unsound, likening it to historical witch-causes-storms beliefs.
- Quoted Simon Lermen complains AI safety debaters respond to sourced corrections with mockery and lies rather than counterarguments.
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