Sexy Apocalypse

Nicholas Grossman is definitely onto something...: There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that[image or embed]— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) September 18, 2026 at 6:17 AMGrossman was commenting on this Techdirt piece by Mike Masnick and Dave Willner. The latter was the head of trust & safety at OpenAI which should make his comments about his former employer as or more newsworthy as Coxon's comments on Anthropic. When we picture the end of the world, the first thing that springs to mind is typically the cinematic version of “things going wrong.” We picture the musical score rising to a crescendo as the climactic events take place. Our heroes are fighting to stop some big giant, unstoppable threat. Even if they are…