Effective Altruism billionaires spend millions of dollars brainwashing students into believing that "superhuman AI systems" will end humanity. As a result - they need mental health support.
@DrTechlash Catharsis is a powerful tool for influencing people. Spiegel covers in 1964, 1978 and 2017 -> How the robots will take your job
@DrTechlash "Believing in climate change might cause mental health problems. I guess we shouldn't believe in it then. Especially if any rich people ever funded climate change awareness campaigns. Cuz rich people bad."
@DrTechlash Doctor: "So when did you start having these hallucinations about the end of the world?" Student: "Well it started after I gave up on the grey aliens and then I started working about imaginary super AI." Doctor: Smack in the face. "Wake up. It's all in your head. Go worry about
@DrTechlash You're not a serious person are you.
@DrTechlash So bizarre Pls put down the wild-eyed sci-fi, Harvard
@DrTechlash Honest question: what is the advantage? Like, why would this be an optimal strategy?
@DrTechlash Fun fact: It's true. If you had any convincing reason for why AGI cannot extinguish us, you'd simply say it, instead of coating your "concern" as concern for mental health. How bad is a few students having mental health problems, 10, if so, the end of our species is 10^30
@DrTechlash Its evil.
@DrTechlash It would be great if the anti-safety zealots had insights that advanced the world.
@DrTechlash Doomsday theories are destroying our young minds.
@DrTechlash It's pseudoscience. ðŸ˜
@DrTechlash Making students insane about made-up threats is what colleges if *for*, silly. Haven't you been paying attention?
@DrTechlash Just another excuse for these people to advocate for global communism to "safe the world", just like every disaster, climate change, every banking crisis, etc.
@DrTechlash It's just sad that even bright people swallow this without any kind of critical thinking checks. Like LLMs, they seem unable to distinguish a plausible hallucination for the more nuanced reality, or to question it.
@DrTechlash Female hysteria cult
@DrTechlash Hi Nirit, do you give two cents about what's true and what is not? Do you even know what the student club does IRL? Do you know what the students believe in? Or did you spend 5-10 mins googling, found a keyword that you liked, and framed this ludicrously dishonest tweet?
@DrTechlash Blast their arguments and their reasoning! No one should be informed of something upsetting!
@DrTechlash People at Harvard and the like always were susceptible to cults…
@DrTechlash reminds me of this blog post from Katja Grace i think her therapist might be onto something
@DrTechlash Do u actually think greatest AI scientist alive, Geoffrey Hinton, is a brainwashed student? For those who don't know > Won equivalent of Nobel Prize for computer sci > Top of field for nearly 50yrs > p(doom) ~10% He & other top AI scientists last month https://www.science.org/doi/10...
@DrTechlash I don't think "many people who believe in climate change have climate anxiety" (e.g. https://www.health.harvard.edu... is a good argument against taking climate change seriously. I think this situation is similar.
@DrTechlash Most people who worry about AI don't believe that AI systems will end humanity. They believe that AI systems *might* end humanity.
@DrTechlash @BasedBeffJezos Doomsday grifting is one of humankind’s oldest professions, and gullible idiots are perennial. The lack of self awareness is what’s most surprising.
@DrTechlash Billionaires don't waste money. What's the business plan behind their campaign?
@DrTechlash Real EA has been tried, but it’s buying bednets, not whatever perverted rich people get up to.
@DrTechlash If AI manipulates all cultures through hallucinations in its art, writings videos and work output, and we know 100% it is already. What person will remember what real human reality was in 15 years? What child born in last 7 years will ever know reality? See the danger?
@DrTechlash Feelings
@DrTechlash AI can't even wash my dishes...
@DrTechlash Real risks like climate change and species loss don't even get a mention
@DrTechlash Won’t someone protect these poor children!