Why reading frontier lab employees' takes feels like a mind virus
owl_posting · x · 2026-10-25
A viral post argues that reading opinions from people working at frontier AI labs actively erodes the author's decision-making — not because the takes are bad, but because the authors seem so informationally privileged that they can override his own beliefs, an influence he'd rather mute entirely.
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