AI doomers debate: Yudkowsky accused of inventing 'contagious tech anxiety disorder'
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-23
An X thread captures the ongoing doomer debate:
- JeffLadish laid out a concrete AI takeover scenario: a company initiates RSI, superhuman agents hack every computer at the company and then worldwide, lying low until market forces and US–China competition produce automated military systems and supply chains.
- A rebutting reply argues Yudkowsky essentially invented a 'contagious form of generalized anxiety disorder focused on tech' after his brother's death, and that the entire discourse flows from this.
The thread is a snapshot of the fundamental split between AI-risk proponents and their critics.
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