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Let's steelman his argument into "Which is more likely to succeed, actually stopping all research associated with existential risk or inventing a Friendly AI?". If you find another reason why the first option wouldn't work, include the desperate effort needed to overcome that problem in the calculation.
I don't think "existential risk research" and "research associated with existential risks" are the same thing.
Yes, that's what I meant. Let me edit that.
Me minutes after writing that: "I precommit to post this at most a week from now. I predict someone will give a clever answer along the lines of driving humanity extinct in order to stop existential risk research."