"What this thread is doing, is refuting a particular bad argument, quoted above, standard among e/accs, about why it'll be totally safe to build superintelligence:"
It's a tremendous rhetorical trick to - accurately - point out that disproving some piece of a particular argument for why AI will kill us all means that AI will be totally safe, then spend your time taking down arguments for safety without acknowledging that the same thing holds.
Consider any argument for why it will be safe to be gesturing towards the universe of both plausible arguments and un... (read more)
"What this thread is doing, is refuting a particular bad argument, quoted above, standard among e/accs, about why it'll be totally safe to build superintelligence:"
It's a tremendous rhetorical trick to - accurately - point out that disproving some piece of a particular argument for why AI will kill us all means that AI will be totally safe, then spend your time taking down arguments for safety without acknowledging that the same thing holds.
Consider any argument for why it will be safe to be gesturing towards the universe of both plausible arguments and un... (read more)