Telling Berkeley 22-year-olds the apocalypse has been prophesied many times before
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-10-25
coldhealing jokes about being at a party telling 22-year-olds in Berkeley that the apocalypse has been prophesied many times before — only for them to quietly argue that this particular apocalypse (AGI) actually has a case. A snapshot of AI-era doom anxiety among the young.
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