Your thoughts will do what they can to distract you from your true underlying fear.
I see a clear link between this and the “Hostile Telepaths Problem”, in that one might be fixating on this matter to hide from the inner problems (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5FAnfAStc7birapMx/the-hostile-telepaths-problem). Same with your suggestion; perhaps there is a link here, where one must respect one’s unwillingness to engage with the “why” of fixating on “AI doomerism”, but gently hypothesise around what it might be, as well as building power to escape one’s addiction.
I see a clear link between this and the “Hostile Telepaths Problem”, in that one might be fixating on this matter to hide from the inner problems (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5FAnfAStc7birapMx/the-hostile-telepaths-problem). Same with your suggestion; perhaps there is a link here, where one must respect one’s unwillingness to engage with the “why” of fixating on “AI doomerism”, but gently hypothesise around what it might be, as well as building power to escape one’s addiction.