Beliefs against short-term financial interest carry more credibility
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-20
In the ongoing debate over Jensen Huang's vs. Dario Amodei's AI doom stances, nablatheta adds: it's obviously more surprising and credible when people believe things that go against their immediate short-term monetary interest—the core of the asymmetry between Dario's doom position and Huang's optimism.
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