AI Doomer Argument Gets Roasted as This Generation's 'Socrates Is Mortal' Syllogism
generativist · x · 2026-09-28
generativist quotes an AI-community spat involving joelgrus about an "AI doomer," calling it "the 'all men are mortal, Socrates is a man' of our generation" — a jab at circular, information-free reasoning in AI doomer debates.
It's a classic in-joke for the AI scene: dressing up banal talking points in the garb of rigorous syllogistic logic.
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