Beff Jezos Mocks AI Doomers: Overnight Foom Would Violate Laws of Physics
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-13
e/acc figure Beff Jezos mocks AI doomers by quoting a satirical take on extinction scenarios: doomers assume superintelligence will magically solve all physical constraints, deceive every monitoring scheme, and override human-engineered restraints — extrapolating from machines solving a 26-year-old Millennium Prize problem to machines cracking datacenter safes. Jezos argues this leap violates the laws of physics and exposes the weakness of doomer reasoning.
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