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Who could have predicted that an early adulthood glued to the Barbelith Magick forum would leave me perfectly equipped to cope with the world of 2025?
"We need a killer AI use case."
"Say no more - I humbly present the Rex City-Zen simulator."
"We need a killer AI use case."
"Say no more - I humbly present the Rex City-Zen simulator."
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Who could have predicted that an early adulthood glued to the Barbelith Magick forum would leave me perfectly equipped to cope with the world of 2025?
"We need a killer AI use case."
"Say no more - I humbly present the Rex City-Zen simulator."
"We need a killer AI use case."
"Say no more - I humbly present the Rex City-Zen simulator."
Reposted by Quantum
AI doomerism is marketing and pure grift. AI doomerists talk about non-specific harms in a non-specific future, and never address today's harms because doing so would cut off their ability to make more money. They don't give a shit about you.
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![Doomerism Is Marketing, and Superintelligence is Bullshit
Please note that the people who talk about the “dangers of AI” very rarely talk about anything happening today, because talking about what’s happening today would require them to do something. Those who claim “we’re not ready for powerful AI” are simultaneously promoting the current slate of LLM tech, hinting strongly that LLMs will, at some point, magically wake up and turn into a conscious computer, all so that you can look to them for what to do next.
At that point they don’t tell you anything, other than that we should be terribly afraid, and that you need to keep inviting them places so that they can give talks about how “rogue AI will manipulate people to stop it from being switched off.”
While there are some that might be good-intentioned, I believe a lot of AI doomerism comes from a deeply cynical place — the knowledge that regular people are genuinely scared that the people who run tech companies are evil and may be on the brink of creating a powerful superintelligence that they control.
LLMs do not “know” anything. They have reams of training data and they are, at their core, predicting what the thing they’re meant to spit out is based on what you feed them. And when you understand that, they become a lot less scary.
AI doomerists don’t talk about this because it’s blatantly obvious that there’s no way to logically jump from LLMs to anything they’re talking about, and thus they must keep things vague, like any good con artist or cult leader. You must remain scared, confused, untrusting but also directionless, other than your continued fealty and willingness to spread the gospel of “something might happen one day.”
And nowhere was that more egregious than in the creation of AI 2027, a blog that should have its authors [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreif5iqx3gi3axinlu6i7rrxns4ybu6qb754u5sgl2yre2y6ymvdebm@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
AI doomerism is marketing and pure grift. AI doomerists talk about non-specific harms in a non-specific future, and never address today's harms because doing so would cut off their ability to make more money. They don't give a shit about you.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
Where's the Poob button?
December 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Where's the Poob button?
But obviously I hope we soon live in a world you never need to wear it
December 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
But obviously I hope we soon live in a world you never need to wear it
That is a *great* shirt
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
That is a *great* shirt