I do have a large readership, who are not as stupid as you seem to think. Many of them (correctly) understood it to not be about you at all. Until you made it about you!
Whether or not you’re right about doom, you are not beating the self-importance allegations
Interesting that you could possibly imagine you don't have a large readership that will slobber all over themselves to conclude that it was about 'doomerism', or that I'd care much what you meant it to say rather than what people would take it as saying.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky (@allTheYud) September 17, 2026