Trailer for “the AI doc”, an upcoming doc featuring the usual suspects, notably the big yud himself (youtu.be)

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Full doc title: “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”

Per wiki:

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell. It is produced by the Academy Award-winning teams behind Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang) and Navalny (Shane Boris and Diane Becker).

What to say here? This is a doc being produced by the producer and one of the directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once, who notably have been making efforts to, uh, negotiate? I guess? with AI companies vis a vis making movies. Anyway the title is a piece of shit and this trailer makes it look like this is just critihype the movie. I guess we’ll hear more about it in the coming month.

Really interesting framing this as brought about by thinking about the director’s child, given Yud’s recent comments about how one should raise a daughter if you had certain beliefs about AI.

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[-] lurker@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

my god I just cringed so hard. I thought the book would be the end….

Also yeah, someone pointed this out on old SneerClub but Yud loves using kids to illustrate his AI fears, and to beat a very dead horse here that’s a weird thing to do in his case

If anyone here wants to jump on the grenade and watch it/acquire a transcript for the rest of us to sneer at you’ll be my hero

[-] lurker@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

also, what the fuck does “apocaloptimist” mean???? does it mean he’s optimistic about our chances of apocalypse??? (which makes no sense, just say pessimist) has he finally gone crazy and is now saying that apocalypse is the optimistic outcome?

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Pure speculation: my guess is that an “apocaloptimist” is just someone fully bought into all of the rationalist AI delulu. Specifically:

AGI is possible
AGI will solve all our current problems
A future where AGI ends humanity is possible/probable

and they take the extra belief, steeped in the grand tradition of liberal optimism, that we will solve the alignment problem and everything will be ok. Again, just guessing here.