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over at the newsletter I wrote about the comically shitty media coverage of the AI doompocalypse

There's a level of permission they give themselves when they've accepted this kind of nihilism. "It's all over and there's no God, so what's a little _____ (crime against nature/children/etc.)?" When in fact every big change in the universe has started small.

I think it's really quite tightly tied to their bizarre transhumanist fascism-linked delusions, and their inflated sense of self importance, yes

It reminds me of religious "the end of the world is coming and we're gonna make it happen" types. Really does eliminate a lot of need for thinking about ramifications of your actions.