We survived mammoths and the Black Death — AI doomers fret over 'a program doing math'
zealcaiden · x · 2026-09-24
In a profanity-laced viral rant, @boneGPT pushes back against AI-doomer rhetoric: humanity already survived mammoths, plagues, ice ages, smallpox, Vikings and the Mongols, and one volcano or solar flare could still wipe out modern life overnight. Against that backdrop, he argues, fearing 'a computer program doing math' is absurd, and claims that 'things are moving too fast' ignore how resilient humans actually are.
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