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by slibhb 1182 days ago
The article concludes with:

> To disprove the doomers, you have to engage with the specific arguments they put forth.

Nope. You can't disprove doomers. All you can do is smile serenely every day that the world doesn't end.

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That’s perfectly valid! No one is obligated to respond or engage with any specific argument. But my point was that if you do choose to engage, saying “the world didn’t end before so it will be fine now” is invalid.
It was valid in every other instance so what makes this one different?

It’s almost like humans have some built-in tendency to step back from the edge and not cause their own extinction.

And no, AI isn’t the same as an asteroid barreling towards the earth where you can point to it and also reference the dinosaurs and say things might not turn out so good this time.