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		slongfield on Feb 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to year... A decent amount of AI doomerism I've seen is classic criti-hype (as coined in [1], afaik)--it's promotion of the technology thinly disguised as critique. Fear mongering about AIs taking artists' or writers' job is yet another way of boasting about their capabilities. [1] https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...

SequoiaHope on Feb 13, 2024 [–]

"My product is so good the world should be afraid of it" often comes from the mouths of the AI CEOs.

Cheer2171 on Feb 13, 2024 | [–]

Same with CEOs who say "Our tech is too powerful, we want to be regulated" while knowing that Congress can barely function to pass a budget.

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