AI doomers mocked: optimism demands evidence, doomsday just needs a long thread
VraserX · x · 2026-11-04
The author calls out the double standard of AI doomers who treat every optimistic prediction as irresponsible speculation, while posting elaborate extinction scenarios backed by nothing more than a sufficiently long Twitter thread. "Imagining a better future requires extraordinary evidence; imagining everyone dead just requires a long thread."
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