I am bringing it up for calibration. As to whether it’s the same magnitude of horrific: in some ways, it’s higher magnitude, no? Even Nazis weren’t going to cause human extinction—of course, the difference is that the Nazis were intentionally doing horrific things, whereas AI researchers, if they cause doom, will do it by accident; but is that a good excuse? You wouldn’t easily forgive a drunk driver who runs over a child...
I am bringing it up for calibration. As to whether it’s the same magnitude of horrific: in some ways, it’s higher magnitude, no? Even Nazis weren’t going to cause human extinction—of course, the difference is that the Nazis were intentionally doing horrific things, whereas AI researchers, if they cause doom, will do it by accident; but is that a good excuse? You wouldn’t easily forgive a drunk driver who runs over a child...
No, but intentional malice is much harder to dissuade nonviolently.