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Oh my goodness they’re not even fallacies. A fallacy is saying that something is wrong because of fallacious reasons. But the OP is indirectly making the much weaker claim that “I’m not buying it and that’s because X and Y.”

Speaking of fallacies, “AI doomers” (I’m just running with it) often deploy the rhetoric (not really a fallacy) that AI is about to doom us all because everything is supposedly so simple (like intelligence) and therefore it’s conceptually simple for a sufficiently advanced (but not that advanced) AI to keep improving itself. Now how do you respond to someone that just says that things are not complex when in reality things are indeed complex? Basically you have to unpack everything because the other person is just taking things at face value and is being naive. It’s like an “appeal to my ignorance”.

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