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Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

Oxide and Friends

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GPT Doomerism: A Reality Check

A16Z, which is this big web three crypto proponent, broadly speaking, the proponents of A16Z, they are kind of AI rationalists and entries. Greg Stixen's recent book based on a fad of a year ago is coming out a year from now. It dismisses AI, doomerism, but then also dismisses any kind of AI ethics or AI safety. We actually just need to go full bore. Everybody do what they want. There can be no consequences of this. And it's very hard to have a debate when someone is talking about a magical machine that can recreate itself. You're talking about something that's going to happen as opposed to something

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