The deniers are more of a danger than the so called successionists

First, I think extinction risks are low, but the transformation to the world presents novel and difficult challenges that could lead to what most ordinary people describe as a dystopia. Unfortunately most people are inflexible in their worldview. “Dot-com boom”, “LLMs are stochastic parrots”, “It’s all marketing”, “regulatory capture”. Ed Zitron et al are a plague on the discourse.