"Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"
beenwrekt · x · 2026-09-12
Quoting the famous line "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism," the author adds commentary to their post about rereading Ted Chiang's 2017 essay on p(doom) amid this week's AI doom debates.
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