AI safety spat: "Never criticize the ingroup" is bad if the ingroup could end humanity
zetalyrae · x · 2026-10-04
zetalyrae pushed back on being called a "partisan hack," responding to accusations that a prominent doom-leaning figure treats anyone expecting AI to be a normal technology as if they were murdering her family. He says he doesn't care about the individual, but argues that if you believe the ingroup might cause human extinction, "never criticize the ingroup" is a bad principle. The exchange is another round in the long-running e/acc vs. AI-doomer feud over rhetoric and tribalism in AI safety.
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