Virgin vs chad meme format
the virgin "AGI existential risk"
illustration of thin anthropomorphic figure with a computer instead of a head, mouse hanging, claws for hands, paperclips falling around.
text:
-programmer LARP fantasy that makes coding the single most important skill for saving humanity
-fake and made up
-entirely based on thought experiments
-Zero evidence
-assumes that there's this vaguely defined concept known as "intelligence" that can be linearly increased as if it were a mathematical quantity
-projects a anthropomorphic drive toward control and power onto algorithms that just do statistics to spit out words; colonialist self-report.
-sponsored by billionaires who want to make their technology seem more important than it is.
-blackmails you from the future using faulty logic; doesn't actually make any sense.
-"oh no, i guess we have to build the Doom Machine now. i guess the course of technological progress is inevitable, oh well"
the Chad Global warming
Muscly burning planet earth
-incomprehensibly complex and interconnected polycrisis
-reveals deep-rooted flaws with the dominant politic-economic paradigm; demands a fundamental shift of human value systems by its sheer physical existence.
-verified by the entire scientific community
-resists ideological simplification
-will actually kill you
-doesn't even need intelligence to threaten humanity's survival
-divine retribution for fossil capital's greed and wanton exploitatition of the natural world.
