Jasmine Sun

But, like, I think he probably has a P. Doom that's, like, 30% or something is my guess.

Like, it's probably, like, quite high, like, relative to most people.

Like, he is clearly very worried about the prospect that AI could kill everybody or leave the world a very bad place.

And I can see that if you believe that, which I, again, I personally do not happen to believe, but if you thought that these tech leaders were actually gambling with your future and they were actually gonna like do two coin flips and there's a 25% chance that you're gonna end up, if not dead, in the permanent underclass, you might think like, just like you gotta kill baby Hitler, you gotta do this kind of violence.

you know and they've done too many thought experiments this is the whole thing about the hyper rationalism like online too much I'm like you have done too many thought experiments like read some virtue ethics like we're not gonna do this please virtue ethics let's inject re-inject that please

Yeah, I think this is super interesting.

I mean, like you said, there's a million ways it could break.

One that I worry about when I'm like freaked out by all this is that it's going to be these like techno-capitalist elites from both sides of the aisle, sort of centrist, pro-neoliberalism, pro-technology folks against AOC.

everybody else, whether they're like right, left, whatever people who are don't like technology.

I mean, like some people have articulated it as friends of the future will be one camp.

And then like everyone who's trying to stop technology and stop change will be another camp.

I don't know that it will be that, but I think that sometimes feels really plausible, especially when I notice that a lot of these very anti-AI factions, they're very bipartisan.

They have people from a lot of different political camps, like creatives, labor unions, environmentalists, states rights people, family first people, religious people, like so many different interest groups are coming together all because they think that AI is going to alter society.

the existing environment, existing jobs, people's existing social circles and their way of life.

And then there are people who are more interested in like economic growth or the long run future, or are just a little bit more pro technology in general.

And this freaks me out because I feel like personally, I am someone who really likes technology.

I like using AI.

I love the internet.

I feel like it's added so much to my life.

I believe in economic growth.