For what it's worth, I don't see this as a tiding of doom. On net, it's probably a good thing because it gives us more time until AGI. It is a general-purpose argument for contrarianism over majoritarianism, of the sort that an extreme contrarian like myself might propose as a unifying principle.

I used to think construal level theory didn't ring true, but practically everything in psychology is a 'theoretical construct'. So, of course, are atoms in physics and heliocentricism in astronomy.