Doomer

Sachs pointed out how Doomer groups and well-funded advocates quickly amplified the message.

In his view, this wasn't spontaneous at all.

And David Friedberg went even broader, saying we are in a hysteria phase of AI Doomerism.

He compared it to climate panic, COVID lockdown debates, and nuclear fear.

The argument being that fear is natural when facing the unknown, but it can also become a mechanism for social control.

Yeah, I do think the Hubinger thing was a big boost for it.

Now, there are people, anti-Doomers, some of whom are claiming that This whole thing was astroturfed.

Look at how rapidly it was retweeted by these key figures.

Surely they coordinated in advance.

As you kind of get, and I know that most sensible people are very, very cynical about what they read online and they'll go to multiple sources and not just jump on the bandwagon.

So Parker Thayer, a chap, then took the resignation post to pieces and then tied it into connections to wealthy Doomers, as well as, and this was the interesting point, as well as famous anthropic investors.

So all of the Doomer Brigade piled in and said, yep, he's absolutely right.

This is, you know, we need to stop.

I cannot, you better stick around for this because I've been waiting for my Apple moment for so long.

But before we get to Apple, we can start with the Doomer take.

This breaks my heart that it has 150 million views because all people want to talk about is how the world's going to end.

And it's like there are these two opinions that are juxtaposed against each other that are similar in their belief, but like contrasting in people's public opinions of them in the sense that we have been talking about reaching the singularity for a very long time.

So it's interesting to see how it's been picked up.

And what was interesting is a lot of people were doing kind of diligence on the dynamics of this post, where it got picked up, how it got picked up.

And a lot of the earlier amplification came from within the Doomer groups, people who have been kind of pushing the scared narrative.

And it's also written very well too.

Fred, did you hear what British said about you right when you were coming into the room? I don't know.

I think he called you a doomer.

That's what my new nickname is, Fred the Doomer.

But I embrace it.

I'm okay with it.

I'm...

I

didn't call you Fred the Doomer.

Yesterday, you had a lot of people who really know what they're talking about saying, look, this was not spontaneous.

This is Doomers getting together.

It's the Doomers.

And the rest of humanity is saying, okay, A, what does that mean? Who are these doomers? And are they right? Okay, and what they mean, the very, very shorthand of at least the people I saw by Doomers is what you're describing.

People who think, all right, to take it out of the realm of AI, our steel factory is up and running and cranking out steel.

Let's go to D.C. and get them to pass laws that say anybody building a steel factory has to jump through these 150 hoops.

Yesterday, you had a lot of people who really know what they're talking about saying, look, this was not spontaneous.

This is Doomers getting together.

It's the Doomers.

And the rest of humanity is saying, okay, A, what does that mean? Who are these doomers? And are they right? Okay, and what they mean, the very, very shorthand of at least the people I saw by Doomers is what you're describing.

People who think, all right, to take it out of the realm of AI, our steel factory is up and running and cranking out steel.

Let's go to D.C. and get them to pass laws that say anybody building a steel factory has to jump through these 150 hoops.

years? Yeah, I do think the Hubinger thing was a big boost for it.

Now, there are people, anti-Doomers, some of whom are claiming that This whole thing was astroturfed.

Look at how rapidly it was retweeted by these key figures.

Surely they coordinated in advance.