Anti-doomer essay: self-appointed AI guardians dress coercion up as 'safety'
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-12
A widely shared thread argues that self-appointed AI doomers, convinced they alone see the catastrophe, redescribe coercion as responsibility: stalling science becomes 'prudence', concentrating power becomes 'safety'. The author says they obsess over speculative existential risk while ignoring the measurable cost of technological stagnation.
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