Yacine mocks doomer logic: stop the Haber process or it'll cause the singularity
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-23
Yacine (ex-Tesla) posted a satirical take on AI doomer logic: by the extreme-risk reasoning, we should tell the Haber-Bosch nitrogen process not to feed millions of starving children, because doing so might indirectly cause the singularity and kill us all—a reductio ad absurdum of overextended AI-risk arguments.
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