Comment by joe_the_user
4 days ago
A lot of people also believe that global warming will cause terrible problems. I think that's a plausible belief but if you combine people believing one or another of these things, you've a lot of the US.
Which is to say that I don't think just dooming is going on. Especially, the belief in AGI doom has a lot of plausible arguments in its favor. I happen not to believe in it but as a belief system it is more similar to a belief in global warming than to a belief in the raptures.
> A lot of people also believe that global warming will cause terrible problems. I think that's a plausible belief but if you combine people believing one or another of these things, you've a lot of the US.
They're really quite different; precisely nobody believes that global warming will cause the effective end of the world by 2027. A significant chunk of AI doomers do believe that, and even those who don't specifically fall in with the 2027 timeline are often thinking in terms of a short timeline before an irreversible end.