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> seem to attract mentally unstable people

This AGI doomerism, which is now also popularized on YouTube etc, is very closely related to the kind of existential questions that mentally unstable people probably ask themselves.

The bar of entry is pretty low, as you need no skills really. You can bootstrap ideas that sound convincing to yourself from nothing pretty quick. That's my hot take anyways.

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AI doomerism I've seen largely boils down to pretty standard critiques of capitalism -- who controls the means of production (the capital class), who will benefit most from increases in productivity (capital class), who is going to end up poorer (working class).

Unless you mean the folks who believe AI will become AGI and start hurting people directly. Those folks are pretty fringe.

Sva did say AGI doomerism, which I think is distinct from the more mundane and grounded concerns about how extant "AI" systems will effect the labor market, and related concerns. The LessWrong people talking about AIs exterminating humanity because we failed to worship it correctly, not the artists complaining about AI mimicking their style and turning art into a commodities available to anybody.

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