Former Climate Activist Sees Familiar Epistemics Chaos in AI Doomerism
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-04
Reacting to a post endorsing Scott Alexander's doomerism, a former climate activist says he "basically agrees," recalling how bad the epistemics were and how confused activists were about what they should aim for — drawing an implicit parallel between climate activism and AI safety discourse.
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