I find that P(doom) has nothing to do with how likely the world is going to end -- (obv no one can predict this with any remotely accurately take) 

I think it's a metric of how much existential angst that an AI Researcher is feeling on that particular day

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Great observation. Similar applies to AGI-soon folks who mostly come from companies whose current business model is betting on continuous exponential growth.

Thankfully there are people who try to systematically manage expectations with papers like this one:

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Thankfully there are people who try to systematically manage expectations with papers like this one:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125