snarles comments on Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: snarles 25 May 2010 07:03:06AM 0 points [-]

"The ideal dangerous technology for people to not give a shit about banning would involve a theoretical threat which is hard to understand"

I don't think The Terminator was hard to understand. The second you get some credible people saying that AI is a threat, the media reaction is going to be overexcessive, as it always is.

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Comment author: snarles 25 May 2010 11:48:24AM *  1 point [-]

Thanks; I was mistaken. Would you say, then, that mainstream scientists are similarly irrational? (The main comparison I have in mind throughout this section, by the way, is global warming.)