I know a person (who is not me) who was going to college to eventually work on AI alignment, wholeheartedly absorbed this community’s “we need to work at full speed at all times or we’re all gonna die” attitude and took on far too much work, had a complete mental breakdown, and is now a depressed nihilist hedonist.
The problem you speak of is not hypothetical. This community’s doomerism and chronic stress has already incurred real costs in brain drain.
I know a person (who is not me) who was going to college to eventually work on AI alignment, wholeheartedly absorbed this community’s “we need to work at full speed at all times or we’re all gonna die” attitude and took on far too much work, had a complete mental breakdown, and is now a depressed nihilist hedonist.
The problem you speak of is not hypothetical. This community’s doomerism and chronic stress has already incurred real costs in brain drain.