zetalyrae mocks EA-style AGI utopia: avoiding xrisk isn't the whole story
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-25
Developer zetalyrae posted a sarcastic take on AI-safety discourse: "We need to solve xrisk so we can do AI slightly differently and build the soy vegan mouse utopia experience machine gulag." He argues that debates about "loss of meaning" prove that even without existential doom, the EA vision of an AGI utopia would still be unappealing — a typical anti-EA jab circulating in AI circles.
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