Doom race: 10-40% survival odds cited as optimism, and that itself is grim
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-01
Quoting Joe Weisenthal, teortaxesTex mocks the AI safety scene's competitive doom-mongering: some respected forecasters put humanity's survival odds at just 10-40%, and this is being cited as a reason to be less pessimistic — which he finds grim in itself.
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