"The wonders and terrors are here": writer on feeling dread putting his kids to sleep
connoraxiotes · x · 2026-09-17
A quoted passage argues it would be healthy for everyone to stop grinding ideological axes about Dario Amodei or Sam Altman and acknowledge that "the wonders and terrors are here" — the author admits that putting his kids to sleep at night, he now feels it "in the pit of my stomach." A fragmentary but evocative snapshot of insider AI anxiety.
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