GoKawiilEssay Compares Anthropic's AI Rhetoric to Cold War Nuclear Planners' Mindset
A writer reflecting on Daniel Ellsberg's memoir 'The Doomsday Machine' draws parallels between the messianic, insider mentality of Cold War-era nuclear strategists at RAND Corporation and the language used today by AI companies like Anthropic. The piece cites Ellsberg's description of colleagues who felt a quasi-religious sense of mission to save the world from nuclear catastrophe, including two young researchers who declined RAND's retirement plan because they doubted humanity would survive long enough to need it.