AI Doomers Are Actually Utopians, and That's the Road to Dystopia
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
A debate over AI doomers: one view holds that AI doomers are actually AI utopians who believe utopia is achievable with enough central control — in other words, the road to dystopia. A follow-up comment argues the doomers' ultimate utopia is a 1984-style neo-Maoism in which they are in charge, and they are trying to convince everyone this should be the future.
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