Before LLMs were mainstream, rationalists and EA types would come on Hacker News to convince people that worrying about how "weak" AI would be used was a waste of time, because the real problem was the risk of "strong" AI.

Those arguments looked incredibly weak and stupid when they were making them, and they look even stupider now.

And this isn't even their biggest error, which, in my opinion, was classifying AI as a bigger existential risk than climate change.

An entire generation of putatively intelligent people lost in their own nightmares, who, through their work, have given birth to chaos.