Experts on the governance of superintelligence systematically self-censored about serious AI risk to avoid being labelled doomers.

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  Frontier labs are incentivised toward fear because it justifies staying closed, which leaves open-source advocates rooting for Chinese labs.

  Ball says the governance experts systematically self-censored about serious risk to avoid being called doomers. Ravikant says the incentive runs the other way, toward fear, because fear is what justifies keeping the weights closed. The same room, the same years, and two incompatible readings of which way the social pressure pushed.

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• America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson7 Jan 2025censorship
• An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media. BABill Ackman20 Feb 2024censorship
• Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation. BSBalaji Srinivasan12 Jul 2026censorship
• Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025censorship

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