I believe that doomerism is a marketing gimmick to appeal to immature people who are attracted to danger, and get excited about it.
Unfortunately, a lot of decision makers with money fall into this category.
I heard it posited that the gimmick is on lawmakers, that they get to feel epic importance because they are writing historical laws that will save humanity from the machine gods... gives them tingles in the ugly bits
What we don't want is the valley gods deciding what those laws look like. They are not aligned with society. Rather they seem to think they know what's better/best for everyone, that if we just defer to them, eventually their hidden altruistism will be effectuated.
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What we don't want is the valley gods deciding what those laws look like. They are not aligned with society. Rather they seem to think they know what's better/best for everyone, that if we just defer to them, eventually their hidden altruistism will be effectuated.