Reddit: AI deniers are more dangerous than the so-called doomsayers
Tricky_Rule_4565 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A Reddit poster argues extinction risk from AI is low, but the coming transformation poses novel challenges that could feel dystopian to ordinary people. They criticize rigid worldviews—the "dot-com boom," "stochastic parrots," "it's all marketing," "regulatory capture" takes—and call Ed Zitron and similar skeptics a plague on the discourse, claiming deniers are more dangerous than successionists.
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