Alan Turing meme mocks AI doomers, while defenders cite Omohundro drives and AIXI
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-30
A satirical tweet jokingly dismisses "Alan Turing" as a doomer crank worried about recursive self-improvement and loss of control — a jab at how safety advocates get ad-hominemed.
The quoted take from @jdpressman carries the substance: even if you dislike Yudkowsky, Omohundro's AI drives paper is straightforwardly correct, AIXI remains a reasonable formalization for proofs, and the OpenAI HF attack actually happened — the arguments shouldn't be dismissed with the messenger.
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