2015 LBR review mocked MacAskill for worrying about the robot apocalypse
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-10-12
Ben Todd recalls Amia Srinivasan's 2015 London Review of Books piece mocking Will MacAskill for worrying about the robot apocalypse and spending money on computers, presented as a reductio without argument. Ten years on, the contrast reads very differently.
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