AI community clash over Scott Alexander's new piece as "doomers falling apart"
nptacek · x · 2026-11-02
Scott Alexander's new article has set off an AI-community fight: boneGPT calls it hilarious and says the doomers are falling apart, while alexandrosM fires back that after three years of trying to explain this, the "rationalists" either knew all along or are refusing to walk through the flowchart — the rationalist community is more "community" than "rationalist," with monkey dynamics dominating while everyone insists it isn't happening.
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