Comment on People neglect small probability events

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:08:18 GMT

Because they are irrational, or haven't been exposed to it?

They all have been exposed to it. John Baez, GiveWell, Robin Hanson, Katja Grace, Greg Egan, Douglas Hofstadter and many others. John Baez has interviewed Eliezer Yudkowsky (part 1, 2, 3). Greg Egan wrote a book where he disses the SIAI. GiveWell interviewed the SIAI. Katja Grace has been a visiting fellow. Robin Hanson started Overcoming Bias with Eliezer. And Douglas Hofstadter talked at the Singularity Summit. None of them believes that risks from AI are terrible important. And there are many other people. And those are just the few that even care to comment on it.

Are they all irrational? If so, how can we fix that?

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