Why smart people are so hilariously freaked out about AI

Lauri Elias
3 min readMar 17, 2024

The main doomer shaman famously tweeted we should go all the way to bombing datacenters helping train AI if the situation calls for it.

You may think what’d the innocent Mr. Scruffies mounting GPUs into racks ever do to deserve vaporisation.

Or you may think that makes perfect sense if we’re considering a trade-off between the deaths of a very few vs. potentially the end of intelligent life in this galaxy.

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