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Normal_Anomaly comments on Q&A with Richard Carrier on risks from AI - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: XiXiDu 13 December 2011 10:00AM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 16 December 2011 05:38:12PM 1 point [-]

If they don't really believe that the world is at risk, why aren't they getting paid more doing something else?

Comment author: timtyler 16 December 2011 06:34:57PM *  0 points [-]

I didn't mean to suggest that they don't believe in what they are saying.

As far as I understand the phenomenon, DOOM-sayers are normally perfectly sincere.

Check out the The End of The World Cult for example. The prophets of DOOM are not kidding.