> the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise They're self-serving. It's virtue signaling and doom-pandering for their own attentio

> the issue seems to be that there are a lot of people who feel otherwise They're self-serving. It's virtue signaling and doom-pandering for their own attention and benefit. It's the same reason the online ad industry loves the infamous quote about how their generation's best and brightest are wasting their time building ad systems and trying to figure out how to drive higher click rates. It's not true (the best and brightest are not working in advertising), it just makes them feel better so they are ok with the quote and propagate it. A variation of Von Neumann's premise about confessing a sin so as to take credit for it is applicable here. The AGI-is-near camp is intentionally being dramatic, they want attention, and it's wholly self-serving. The louder they are the more attention they get, that has long since been figured out.