Fear of mind-hacking makes people dismiss all novel catastrophic risks as tricks
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-13
Andy Masley argues that many people's understandable fear of being "mind-hacked" by strange beliefs has led them to treat any conceivable catastrophe from something new as, by definition, just a rhetorical trick. Quoting Jesse Singal, he points to built-up resentment over covid restrictions and wokeness now being channeled into some of the strangest, least coherent takes around — a commentary on why AI-risk discourse has become so polarized.
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