Essay: why undefeatable arguments for AI doom resemble theological apologetics
panickssery · x · 2026-09-12
panickssery points to 1a3orn's essay "On Those Undefeatable Arguments for AI Doom," which compares the AI-risk argument landscape to the numerous, complex, and contradictory traditions of apologetics. Opening with an allegory about a student probing Catholic arguments from Augustine to Aquinas — each failing on inspection while the interlocutor simply swaps in another — the essay examines why AI doom arguments are so hard to defeat head-on and what that defensive argumentative structure means epistemically.
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