Yep the #TESCREAL bundle is running the show. H/t @xriskology "Leigh will borrow the estimate of Oxford philosopher Toby Ord in a speech on Friday exploring the intersection between catastrophic risk and extreme politics” https://
theguardian.com/australia-news
/2023/sep/22/one-in-six-chance-of-a-species-ending-event-in-next-century-labor-mp-andrew-leigh-warns
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TESCREAL bundle influences catastrophic risk and politics discourse
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Eliezer Yudkowsky denies wanting to control ASI
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Who told you the lie that I wanted to centralize ASI or control it? I want it to not exist. I cannot control it. It kills everyone regardless of who thinks they control it.
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AI industry downplays existential risks despite doom rhetoric
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I cannot think of any case in history where "our product will kill everyone you love" was a good marketing tactic, and when Nvidia, the major winner so far at $1T cap, testified before the US Senate, they pooh-poohed talk of AGI (not just doom). You have been sold quite the bill
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White Supremacist Funding Influences AI Ethics Signatories
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Nuclear Weapons and AI: Understanding Different Threat Categories
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They are of course vastly different. As Marvin Minsky observed, nuclear weapons are not really dangerous because nuclear weapons are not self-replicating. To this I would add that artificial pathogens are not really dangerous because they're not smart.
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Decentralized AGI Development Better Than Singular Control
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Assigning control over AGI development to one singular organization and barring everyone else from developing it is quite a misguided idea.
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TESCREALism and AI: Utopia, Apocalypse, and Eugenics Concerns
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Yes. I should ally with the Elmos and Altmans and Anthropics and other TESCREALists like Tegmark who cycle between selling utopia and apocalypse. Not to mention the eugenics roots of all this. https://
youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT4T
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Tech Founders’ Influence on Policy and Wealth Concentration
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And they're all the co-founders, chief X and whatever of all these companies getting gazillions and setting policy
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Editorial Defending Controversial AI Research Raises Ethics Concerns
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I am losing my mind with these people. He is citing THE EDITORIAL DEFENDING CHARLES MURRAY'S BOOK AFTER UPROAR DUE TO ITS EXTREME RACISM. And its totally fine they just run the show here.
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AGI Apocalypse Narratives and Their Policy Influence
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There needs to be support group for those of us seeing the ridiculous #AGI apocalypse and utopian cults steering policy, research, education (they got all the undergrads), and PR.