Doomer-side lament: no opposition argument survives scrutiny, alignment still ignored
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-21
A reposted take argues the author still can't find an opposition to doomer arguments that survives even basic scrutiny, and that the other side won't even acknowledge that alignment is a precondition to surviving ASI — "cope all the way down." Part of the ongoing AI doomer-vs-skeptic debate.
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