AI safety researcher slams "it's so over" discourse cycle as undignified
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-24
AI safety researcher jdpressman vents about the current discourse culture: after formal verification progress, people mock doomers with lines like "have you tried turning the doom off?" He argues this endless cycle of tribal mockery based on whatever phase of the "it's so over / we're so back" curve is tiresome and undignified.
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