AI x-risk discourse is about to lose its epistemics correlation
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-14
Responding to the observation that belief in AI existential risk has correlated with good epistemics until now, the author agrees that mainstreaming will break that correlation — likely good for the world, but it will make the discourse noisy and personally annoying.
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