AI doomerism is a technologized form of orthodox judaism
- it is a relatively insular and high-context community
- AI doomers argue with God (AGI) and try to defy it similar to how orthodox jews negotiate constraints and look for edge-cases in the rules passed down by God in the Torah (like Sabbath loopholes)
- paraphrasing, but in Judaism, the idea is that the messiah will come once everyone or enough people believe hard enough in Jewish practices, effectively AI alignment as the messiah
- both have a big focus on text and reading and producing text to debate the minutiae of there theology
- yudkowsky himself grew up jewish orthodox
anyway, today is my bday and tomorrow I'm having a halloween party where the theme is existential risk and I've been thinking about this too much