Note that the problem is not convincing countries not to do AI, the problem is convincing countries to police their population to prevent them from doing AI.
It’s much harder to hide a factory or a nuclear laboratory than to hide a bunch of geeks in a basement filled with computers. Note how bio-weapons are really scary not (just) because countries might (or are) developing them, but that it’s soon becoming easy enough for someone to do it in their kitchen.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.