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How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

"Conversations became focused on how to integrate AI into the software that the customers used. I was watching it spread like a virus throughout that organization, while I continued programming away as I had for the decades before, writing tests and building features, and largely enjoying the work.
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I didn't, and I still don't, see the need for working faster. I really like what Cal Newport encourages in his book Slow Productivity: work at a natural pace."

I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.