In the past I've enumerated three humanity-denying movements in the past around AI:

· Bits and Bobs 6/16/25
  • In the past I've enumerated three humanity-denying movements in the past around AI:
    • 1) AI doomerism - the people who say AI is fundamentally an immoral technology and don't want anyone to use it, despite its obvious power and potential to help humanity.
    • 2) E/Acc - which includes people who might call you a speciesist for optimizing for human flourishing over an AI's.
    • 3) cynical engagement maximizers - the people who are happy to apply the social media engagement maximizing playbook to AI and make a quick buck.
    • Of the three humanity-denying movements, no one says they want to do the cynical engagement maxing.
    • In fact, many people doing it probably wouldn't even admit to themselves that that's what they're doing.
    • That last one is so easy to get sucked into despite your best intentions.

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