AI safety researcher pushes back on the "quit your job, ASI is coming by 2027" meme
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-11-12
Sparked by @rssmrm quitting his job to make music, declaring the intelligence explosion arrives by 2027 and urging everyone to go offline and make art, AI safety researcher ValsTutor rebutted the "loser premise": he switched from field-building to object-level technical AI safety work precisely because of crunch time. The exchange captures the ongoing split between doomer hedonism and technical safety urgency.
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