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AGI doomers, yes.
I wouldn’t reject the label “AI Doomer”, myself. But I don’t have a strong position on utopia/dystopia when it comes to AGI.
Mostly because I think it’s so far away, that there’s a real good chance that we bet the farm on something much, much dumber than AGI.
Like a fancy autocomplete.
And hook it up to something unforgivably dangerous.
Like nukes.
The role of the doomer is to declare that, actually, AGI is juuust around the corner. And it's scary! They're doing the same hype as the boosters are, just from a different angle. It's all the same crap, though.
But, yeah, realistically they're going to put a chatbot in charge of something important and it's going to fail and the bubble will pop.
Hopefully it's something small and not the nuclear arsenal, but uh, these cultists really want to put chatbots in charge of the nukes.