Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
@DrTechlash
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Communication Researcher, analyzing the tech discourse. Book Author: The TECHLASH. Former Research Fellow, USC. Substack: AI Panic. Signal: DrTechlash.16
Cupertino, CA
Joined November 2020
RT @WIRED: Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it. https:/….
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Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.
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It's always DOOM time at The Atlantic. From the social media panic of 2020 to the AI panic of 2025.
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The "AI Existential Risk" map got an update. Organizations/projects still spring up like mushrooms after the rain.
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To be clear, "Going Infinite" was too sympathetic toward SBF, as opposed to the other two. But all three present a vivid picture of the EA's influence/ties - and there are many.
@netflix Important context:. 1. Effective Altruism created FTX:.In FTX's early days, the philanthropist Luke Ding loaned Alameda $6 million, and Jaan Tallinn loaned $110 million worth of Ether. This funding "gave the nascent crypto trading firm set up by Sam Bankman-Fried and cofounder
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Just finished reading Andrew Chow's well-researched book "Cryptomania." .It joins 2 other books I highly recommend: "Going Infinite" by Michael Lewis and "Number Go Up" by Zeke Faux. Effective Altruism's blame is all over the SBF story, yet, somehow, we stopped talking about it.
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RT @PessimistsArc: The 1980s was a time when technology was rapidly shaping youth culture/childhood. - Video games.- Walkman.- Pagers.- VH….
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GPT-5 is now out, so the doomers are updating their talking point: We never implied that doom is imminent. Yeah, cool, but there's the Internet.
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RT @DavidSacks: A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI?. The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted tha….
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RT @Dan_Jeffries1: How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what w….
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Reminder: That's how OpenAI released o1 (September 2024).
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Sam Altman: “I kind of hate the term AGI, because everyone at this point uses it to mean a slightly different thing.”. OpenAI COO, Brad Lightcap: the joke is “if you ask five people what AGI is, you’ll get seven answers.” . Introducing GPT5 as a great, capable model - without the
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The New York Times has a new article on the Rationality and Effective Altruism movements. 🧵 4/4. These communities tend to talk alarmingly about power-seeking AI, while they themselves demonstrate the actual power-seeking behaviors. You should read the entire piece: "The Rise
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The New York Times has a new article on the Rationality and Effective Altruism movements. We need to discuss further the damage they've done to AI governance – 🧵 3/4. In AI regulation, they attempt to reshape policy around hypothetical made-up futures. Their favored fixes –
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The New York Times has a new article on the Rationality and Effective Altruism movements. We need to discuss further the damage they've done to AI framing – 🧵 2/4. In the public sphere, rationalists and effective altruists normalize extreme "human extinction from AI" prophecies
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