". . . there is good reason to doubt that so-called Doomers have any clue what they are doing in terms of enacting change in the real world, or even in thinking through the consequences of their own actions. They are fabulous at getting publicity (the Yudkowsky/Soares bestseller, Bostrom’s bestseller, Coxon’s thread, the Pause letter, and so on). And they are fabulous at getting truly massive funding, perhaps close to (if not over) a billion dollars by now.
But in my view, the net effect of the last decade of “Doomer” talk (Coxon appears to be a card-carrying member of that party) has been to make the Frontier AI companies wealthier and more powerful. In so doing they have also aided and abetted a concentration of power that is in itself of highly dangerous. Everytime they scream that AI is going to kill us all, VCs toss in billions more. None of the AI safety work Doomers have sponsored has led to a demonstrated, implemented solution to the core problem. Enabling OpenAI and Anthropic may prove to be one of the worst things humanity has ever done, and they played a big role in that with their constant drama.. . " . Marcus
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