Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview
Doom or Bloom is an interactive web tool that maps users' AI worldviews on a grid measuring civilizational change and doom versus bloom outcomes against simulated public figures.
summary is enough The interactive tool is a fun diversion, but its core premise and community critiques are easily understood through the summary and comments.
summary
Doom or Bloom asks users a series of questions to generate an AI worldview profile, placing them on a grid measuring civilizational impact and apocalyptic versus utopian outcomes. The tool also simulates how prominent figures like Sam Altman, Yann LeCun, and Gary Marcus would answer based on public sources. In the discussion, commenters debate the validity of the binary framing, noting that outcomes like power concentration or enshittification do not fit neatly into the provided axes.
key points
- The tool maps user inputs onto a 2D grid comparing civilizational versus incremental change against doom versus bloom outcomes.
- It includes simulated profiles for public figures derived from their public statements and writings.
- Commenters critique the binary framework, arguing it ignores nuanced outcomes like economic power concentration and cultural enshittification.
who should read it
AI enthusiasts and commentators interested in comparing their philosophical outlooks on artificial intelligence against industry leaders.
discussion positive
consensus
Commenters find the tool engaging and appreciate the creator's active participation, though many point out limitations in the binary framework.
pushback
Some users push back against the framing, arguing that AI's real impact is mundane enshittification and wealth concentration rather than binary extinction or utopia.
Doom or Bloom for Whom?
Say that I believe that AI is an ordinary technology (in the same way as the internet or transistors) that will be used to concentrate massive amounts of wealth and power into a small set of unaccountable oligarchs and their handmaidens while everyone else gets endless enshittification.
Pretty great outcome if you're one of the lucky few. Why wouldn't Musk or Andreesen think that's "bloom"? The exact same outcome OTOH seems pretty doom to me (a random dude)
It articulates the core critique that framing AI outcomes around a binary ignores how power and wealth concentration benefit a few while worsening society for the rest.
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