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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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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 1 day 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.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

According to a site : https://apocaloptimist.net/the-apocaloptimist/

"An Apocaloptimist sees the trouble, but is optimistic we can do anything–including fixing all the world’s problems"

So if jesus wins the war during the second coming all problems are fixed.

(~~The thing is also nuts "we are the people actually working on fixing things [by hoping AGI will fix it all for us]", my brother in Eschatology you are running a podcast~~ sorry the guy is unrelated to the agi people theyvare just using his term).

E: does seem the site itself isnt about AI so they just stole this guys term. Nope they just took this clean energy guys term, sorry about sneering at him he seems to actually want to introduce clean energy and works hard (that seems to be a lot of conventions and blogging however, so buying ourself out of the capitalist problems) for it, as far as I can tell.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 18 hours ago

I feel like I nailed my guess

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 16 hours ago

Think you did, I only followed it up with a google and finding that site.

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