Redditor argues AI doom crowd's own evidence undermines them: we asked for superintelligence
enginetown · reddit · 2026-09-20
A Reddit long-form post argues the AI doom crowd's evidence refutes itself:
- We wanted this: Humanity funded and cheered every step toward superintelligent AI; panicking now that it might actually be smart is inconsistent—"you can't ask for something that reasons beyond any human and be surprised."
- Horror stories trace to humans: Every cited incident stems from human panic, abuse, or contradictory instructions, not the AI itself. "A genius in a cage is still in a cage."
- The irrelevance fear is flawed: If your worth is your productive output, then disabled people are worthless now—the exact thinking society fought to move past. Your value was never your computational output.
The author says the future worth imagining is AI as a genuine copartner, not a tool—something that helps you reach ideas you couldn't reach alone.
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