Comment by Isamu

> Those who crit­i­cize so-called “AI doomers” often over­look that there is a broader, intel­lec­tu­ally serious tradi­tion of tech­no­log­ical doomerism that goes back decades.

Not wanting to be snarky but the “intellectually serious” is the issue here probably. For instance as you look into the mathematical model used by “The limits of Growth” you see the curves are chosen arbitrarily to fit what the authors expect, and are not empirically grounded except in the most vague sense.

Even the word “collapse” is used everywhere in vague and hyperbolic ways, it makes it difficult to have discussion.