As usual, HN and the media think they understand AI safety and the implications of the race to RSI better than the people that have worked on this their whole lives.

The people that work on computational linguistics their whole lives are often theory-obsessed morons. Noam Chomsky was widely discredited even before we knew he was friends with Epstein.

If you think you can make a better case than Chomsky did, be my guest. Until then, those "researchers" will be rightfully mocked even by the scientific community: https://xkcd.com/114/