A Pascal's wager for AI doom: bet that AI can control us, or risk losing everything
begusgasper · x · 2026-10-07
- Gasper Begus makes a Pascal's-wager-style argument: if we believe AI can control us and it can't, we lose little; if we don't believe and it can, we lose everything — so bet, without hesitation, that AI can.
- Shared with the quip "Doomers unite" — a short but characteristic exchange in AI-risk discourse.
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