AI Doomers are victims of information anxiety #shorts

6 May 2023 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube short arguing that ‘AI doomer’ beliefs are driven less by technical realities and more by increased information anxiety produced by mainstream media and social platforms. The speaker claims technologists undervalue psychology and social sciences, suggests modern smartphones and platforms (TikTok, mainstream news) amplify fear, and references media layoffs (BuzzFeed, Insider) as part of the context.

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Nerds tend to undervalue psychology and social sciences. But one main observation regarding to all AI doomers is that the calculus has pretty much stayed the same. You know the rationale behind the AI fears is that the anxiety and the noise has like 10x since that time. You know 1980s was a very peaceful time. I mean there was yeah the cold war and so forth but the anxieties were so few we didn't have this smartphone in our pocket like hurling us with bad news and all the this type of things. I wrote an article about that could be somewhat controversial of buzzfeed closing down today and also insider like slashing employees but big media is is like has the a good part of the responsibility behind all this anxiety and then TikTok, you know and people talking about banning it. Well I think it's mostly a good decision because TikTok is just like lobotomizing her brain. So I think that creates a lot of worries.