AI safety drama: deepfates hits back at Yudkowsky over 'self-importance' jabs
nptacek · x · 2026-09-18
AI writer deepfates and Eliezer Yudkowsky (allTheYud) clashed publicly on X. Yudkowsky mocked deepfates's readership for eagerly reading his work as being about 'doomerism'. deepfates fired back that his readers correctly understood it wasn't about Yudkowsky at all — 'until you made it about you' — adding that whether or not he's right about doom, 'you are not beating the self-importance allegations'.
A notable public spat between doomer-adjacent writers and their critics in the AI safety scene.
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