Dev complains frontier lab employees' bio-risk takes are a 'mind virus' ruining his sanity
owl_posting · x · 2026-10-25
Developer owlposting complains that reading "bio takes" from people working at frontier AI labs is actively eroding his decision-making, calling it an "insane mind virus" and wishing he could mute that genre of posts for his own sanity — a snapshot of growing doom-post fatigue in the AI community.
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