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Ed Zitron

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

No, they don't.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Other than the fact they had a single sentence saying, I see the path to this.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

They don't have any proof.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

They don't have anything.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

And yeah, you're right.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

These people are weird.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I have seen people on XTheEverything app, Twitter,

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

actually posting that we are in AI 2027, that everything matches up with AI 2027.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I want to be clear, and the reason I mentioned this is I just brought this up, is that in early 2026, in AI 2027, they say that Agent 1 has already started doing its own research.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

That's not happening.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

None of that's happening.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

In fact, none of this is happening.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

These people are just weird fantasists.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think while there's the poison of the philosophers in them, I just think that Wario Amadei and Sam Altman both, I think that they both realize that journalists are easily conned, that investors are easily conned, that you can just say shit and anyone will print it and believe you because you're a CEO.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Go spend time with –

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think just to be abundantly clear, I don't think everyone is cynical.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

I think they've been easily conned, but I don't think that they're cynical.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Yes.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

But if he has one direct report, he's not doing anything.

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

He's just what he's going to meetings.