Jasmine Sun
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so I think that when people, when some of the more accelerationist types have turned Doomer into this
slur almost, against people who want to slow down or to regulate AI or other technologies, they're sort of presenting a group of people as being anti-progress or as being in opposition to this core belief in Silicon Valley, that technological
is the only thing that has ever brought us growth, prosperity, equality, et cetera.
And if in all of history, in spite of, again, the industrial revolution, like automation, like every wave of technology has brought on its own wave of disruptions.
But
if one were to believe so firmly in these apocalypse scenarios that you would be willing to slow down the only thing that might, again, bring us this future utopia that would keep the progress engine going, then you must be this kind of, like, pessimistic, low-agency, like, tech-skeptical kind of person, I suppose.
And so, again, I would say that this belief is more of the VC startup crowd.
But I think that the idea that, like, we as humans are, first of all, not –
powerful enough to be able to control our own technologies.
The idea that we should stop progress just because there might be some marginal side chance of harm.
Like, I think people are seeing AI in the context of all the previous technological revolutions and thinking, yeah, these doomers would have still be on the farms being peasants.
They would never have allowed the industrial revolution to happen.
Yeah, I would say, again, to me, a huge part of this is the talent flows question.
Just because talent is so scarce, as we see from the salaries that people are willing to pay, talent is incredibly scarce.
And so when you have these cultural beliefs, the main thing that they influence is actually really what young people decide to do with their lives and how many people decide to, say, work on safety versus working on capabilities, right?
One thing that I've noticed rise over the past few years, even outside of AI, but in Silicon Valley broadly, is the rise of vice signaling.
This idea that actually the edgy and cool thing to do is to build a startup like Mechanize where the tagline is that we're going to automate and replace all human labor, or to build something like Clue.ly where the tagline is cheat on everything.
I think that the idea that trying to be careful and
trying to be careful, trying to be constrained about the way that you build technology by labeling that as doomery or low status or like as not being sort of a pioneer and a serious builder.
You're basically preventing a bunch of people
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