David Sacks calls ex-Anthropic/OpenAI researcher's viral resignation a 'doomer op'
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-12
Rohan Paul relays David Sacks's rebuttal to Jacob Coxon's 166M-view resignation thread: Sacks claims it was a planned 'doomer op' by a blank account with no followers that exploded in a day, amplified by three well-funded doomer groups. Context: Coxon told CBS an AI could copy itself across computers, making it impossible to simply 'unplug.'
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