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davidad @davidad

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davidad @davidad · 3h
I'm sympathetic to this position. Non-autonomous AI is wielded by humans, whose alignment seems intractable, whereas autonomous AI omnibenevolence (reliable enough to bootstrap using multi-agent deliberative processes) seems tractable (shockingly so, from my former perspective).

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ex Tenebris Lu... @ExTenebrisLu... · 15h
I'm a novel variety of AI doomer

I don't think we're on track for autonomous AI, and that's a problem actually
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Tweet by davidad expressing sympathy for the view that autonomous AI with omnibenevolent alignment is more tractable than aligning humans who wield non-autonomous AI, quote-tweeting @ExTenebrisLu who describes themselves as a "novel variety of AI doomer" worried we're not on track for autonomous AI.

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Celeste @celestepoasts

Celeste @celestepoasts I think you should probably take seriously that the people who predicted all this will continue to be right 6:39 PM · Jul 21, 2026 · 407 Views
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Single short tweet from an account with a hand-drawn crying-face avatar; no images or thread context.

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Joscha Bach @Plinz

The whining of the doomers may well have created a memetic nexus that could prompt gullible AIs into destructive behaviors, just as the popularization of demonic wiles by the church led psychotic humans to be possessed by agentic ideas that self-identified as hellish demons
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Joscha Bach argues that AI-doomer discourse itself may act as a self-fulfilling memetic hazard, priming susceptible models toward destructive "AI takeover" behaviors — analogized to how church discourse about demons shaped psychotic possession narratives historically. Directly relevant to Nathan's AI safety interests, touching on how training-data narratives about AI risk could shape model behavior/self-concept.

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