Kelsey Tuoc: Living Under Annihilation's Shadow Harms People, Even If They're Right
EigenGender · x · 2026-10-22
AI safety researcher Kelsey Tuoc argues that "living in the shadow of annihilation is bad for people, even if they're right." The quoted essay compares Anthropic's mindset to Cold War nuclear deterrence logic (Reagan: "I thought they were crazy"), notes every insular community develops self-contained assumptions — compounded at Anthropic by long hours, secrecy around IP, and genuine inside information like the next Claude — and calls millenarianism a known way people go crazy: correct projections wouldn't make it a less insanity-inducing workplace.
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