this is not right
having any pdoom at all earns consternation at a lab. these are tech employees building products. they don’t want to have to explain to their family, or god forbid, some crazy attacker, why their products might curtail all value in the world
“A low p(doom) is low status”. A big problem rn is that a lot of the discourse around these consequential issues is being shaped by ppl desperately posturing for status in whatever is perceived to be the latest Silicon Valley in group.
DC is a fucked up city but at least it values intellectual diversity. In SF it feels like too many people won’t speak their mind lest they get disinvited from Dwarkesh’s birthday party or whatever