AI doom debate: 'the most doomy may be those who can't meet the technical bar'
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-13
Aleksa Gordic and nablatheta argue over AI doomerism. nablatheta pushes back on the claim that only the technically weak fear AI extinction, noting many very technically competent people think AI is likely to kill everyone. Gordic offers a hypothesis: the most doomy may be those incapable of becoming technically good enough — why develop skills to build machines that will certainly kill us?
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