Given that out of billions, a few with extremely weird brains are likely to see evil-AI risk as nigh.
One of them is bound to push the red button way before I or anyone else would reach for it.
So I hope red technology-resetting buttons don't become widely available.
This suggests a principle: I have a duty to be conservative in my own destroy-the-world-to-save-it projects :)
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.