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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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zitron's last podcast calls anthropic/openai top brass weirdos and cultists they are, describes their beliefs about building the machine god as bad philosophy and something that must go hard when you're 12 https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-ai-industry-must-stop-doom-trolling-w-cal-newport
The op-ed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html
Newport I mostly know for pretty mid lifehack / business books for the Tim Ferris crowd, pre-pandemic. "Doom trolling" does have a better ring to it than "critihype." Maybe he was holding his tongue until he got tenure or something.
idk i think it's new that someone in mainstream sort of calls them cultists, namedrops EY as cult leader and fanfic writer and everything that you could hear about in our circlejerk, but also shortly before EZ said that he's been called doomer and a crank but now he's vindicated to a degree not thought possible. this all happens after drop of that openai financial info, so EZ also held off, and EZ is PR guy so i guess he knows what he's doing, and maybe he thinks this might be it, or maybe he doesn't have anything better and plays his hand in best way he can. i wonder what comes next