AI doomerism rhetoric inevitably triggers violence

This piece is a scathing indictment of the PauseAI movement, framing its members not as activists but as a "priesthood" whose logic necessitates terrorism.

• –Argues that if you truly believe AI development is a "nearly certain" existential threat, then violence becomes a rational act of self-defense.
• –Critiques doomer leaders for avoiding violence only for strategic efficacy rather than moral principle, creating a "permission structure" for radicalized followers.
• –Highlights the "purity spiral" in doomer communities where social status is tied to increasingly dire and certain predictions of catastrophe.
• –Suggests the movement conflates verbal intelligence with actual power, fundamentally misunderstanding how technology is governed.
• –Connects the intellectual framework of "p(doom)" directly to real-world outcomes like the Molotov cocktail attacks on data centers.