dbasch dismisses AI doomer books as Michael Bay-style appeals to emotion, not calculation
dbasch · x · 2026-09-17
Responding to the claim that doomers have written entire books laying out concrete pathways by which ASI could kill us all, dbasch calls such books garbage: like writing one about stopping comets from hitting Earth—entertaining like a Michael Bay movie, but persuasive only through 'nonzero probabilities' and emotion, not calculations.
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