Inside a rationalist AI-doomer meetup: questioning 'AI kills everyone' got me walked out on
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-16
Author @realizingerin recounts attending a rationalist/EA AI-doomer event hoping someone would calmly walk through the argument for AI extinction—assumptions, intermediate steps, regulable choke points. The opposite happened: attendees seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility their conclusion (AI literally kills everyone) might be wrong, treating the most extreme claim as an axiom, with several walking out mid-conversation when she questioned its inevitability.
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