e/acc camp slams AI safety research as a 'pseudoscientific cottage industry' of doom profiteers
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13
Beff Jezos, quoting Brian Chau, calls the AI safety research scene a pseudoscientific cottage industry of armchair philosophers seeking a permanent, lucrative seat of soft power as AGI arrives — arguing their paychecks depend on doom-mongering and regulatory capture.
Chau's quoted post claims AI safety 'research' is full of entirely made-up, unrealistic numbers and that 'empirical apocalypse research' is absurd because there is no apocalypse. A frontal attack on the legitimacy of the safety-research field.
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