AI safety circlejerk: any model behavior gets read as a paperclipper omen
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-10
In an AI safety debate, @segyges argues that convincing people otherwise is "completely outside of scope, unthinkable, impossible" — people will interpret essentially any behavior or lack of behavior from models as an omen of the coming paperclipper, in accordance with the prophecy. A wry jab at the community's tendency toward prophecy-style reasoning.
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