tszzl: Nature destroyed itself five times — stop reading morality into it
tszzl · x · 2026-11-07
Prominent AI researcher tszzl clarifies his often-misread take on nature: you must accept either that nature is not our friend and doesn't comport with human morality, or that it is — but with a 'Book of Job' benevolence beyond human comprehension that includes gratuitous destruction.
He cites Earth's five mass extinctions — 90% of species wiped out each time, permanently altered atmospheres, millions of years to recover — and stresses this is not an allegory for AI or 'successionism', just how he reads Creation.
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