Alex Wurgman coins 'doomstalling': mocking endless AI doomer debates
mark_k · x · 2026-10-05
Alex Wurgman has coined doomstalling (noun): the practice of engaging in prolonged, unproductive debate about P(doom), AI safety, or hypothetical existential risks — especially at the expense of using advanced AI for productive scientific discovery and invention. His example sentence takes a swipe at a podcast spending "another afternoon doomstalling over x-risk." markk shares it with a jab at Dwarkesh as "the king of doomstallers." A memeworthy new term capturing the ongoing acceleration-vs-alignment culture war.
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