I'd appreciate seeing the post that you mentioned, and part of me does worry that you are right.
Part of me worries that this is all just a form of group mental illness. That I am have been sucked into a group that was brought together through a pathological obsession with groundless abstract prediction and a sad-childhood-memories-induced intuition that narratives about the safety of powerful actors are usually untrustworthy. That fears about AI are an extreme shadow of these underlying group beliefs and values. That we are just endlessly group-reinforcing our mental-ill-health-backed doomy predictions about future powerful entities. I put weight on this part of me having some or all of the truth.
But I have other parts that tell me that these ideas just all make sense. In fact, the more grounded, calm and in touch with my thoughts and feelings I am - the more I think/feel that acknowledging AI risk is the healthiest thing that I do.
I'd appreciate seeing the post that you mentioned, and part of me does worry that you are right.
Part of me worries that this is all just a form of group mental illness. That I am have been sucked into a group that was brought together through a pathological obsession with groundless abstract prediction and a sad-childhood-memories-induced intuition that narratives about the safety of powerful actors are usually untrustworthy. That fears about AI are an extreme shadow of these underlying group beliefs and values. That we are just endlessly group-reinforcing our mental-ill-health-backed doomy predictions about future powerful entities. I put weight on this part of me having some or all of the truth.
But I have other parts that tell me that these ideas just all make sense. In fact, the more grounded, calm and in touch with my thoughts and feelings I am - the more I think/feel that acknowledging AI risk is the healthiest thing that I do.