Comment by rsynnott

> 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.