What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
Published: (February 25, 2026 at 09:00 AM EST)
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Source: Hacker News
Source: Hacker News
Overview
Your kids forwarded you Matt Shumer’s Something Big Happened article. Your feed exploded with the Citrini 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis and its artful, immutable chain reactions. The key leaders of the AI labs struggle openly with the morality of what they are building as their safety leaders quit in frustration. Policy leaders strive to regulate AI as if it were atomic weapons (thanks Oppenheimer).
Question
What are the best psychological coping mechanisms for this stage of the S‑curve?
Asking for a generation…
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