I think this post is a good one, even though personally I’m not hung up on AI doom; I think this area of research is cool and interesting, which is a rather different emotion from fear.
My immediate thought is that Cognitive Behevioral Therapy concepts might relevant here, as it sounds like a member of the family of anxiety disorders that CBT is designed to treat.
And also, given this a group phenomenon rather than a purely individual one, there’s something of the apocalyptic religious cult dynamic going on.
one thing that can be kind of irritating about CBT practionere is they way they tend to focus on the emotion about X rather than whether you think X is likely or a practical problem. And then you notice that our typical English language way of talking about things doesn’t distinguish them well. So .. at least when sp asking to someone who is into cbt, you can temporarily adopt a way of speaking that carefully distinguishes the two.
I think this post is a good one, even though personally I’m not hung up on AI doom; I think this area of research is cool and interesting, which is a rather different emotion from fear.
My immediate thought is that Cognitive Behevioral Therapy concepts might relevant here, as it sounds like a member of the family of anxiety disorders that CBT is designed to treat.
And also, given this a group phenomenon rather than a purely individual one, there’s something of the apocalyptic religious cult dynamic going on.
one thing that can be kind of irritating about CBT practionere is they way they tend to focus on the emotion about X rather than whether you think X is likely or a practical problem. And then you notice that our typical English language way of talking about things doesn’t distinguish them well. So .. at least when sp asking to someone who is into cbt, you can temporarily adopt a way of speaking that carefully distinguishes the two.