I have to admit, reading things like this I can’t help but be put at ease, somewhat. I almost feel AI alarmism leaving my body.
Here’s my guess why that happens: rat-sphere bloggers are the ones responsible for me treating AI threat seriously. Seeing how someone smart enough to post here get so....carried away, deciding to post it, and getting not lighthearted ridicule but upvotes and the usual “AGI around the corner” chatter reminds me that this community is still made of mere people, and worrying about AI is partly a cultural norm here, a meme. It also shifts my prior somewhat in favor of AI skepticism—if you guys can get carried away in this manner, perhaps in the AI-doom scenarios also have a critical flaw that I’m not bright enough to see? Hope so!
I have to admit, reading things like this I can’t help but be put at ease, somewhat. I almost feel AI alarmism leaving my body.
Here’s my guess why that happens: rat-sphere bloggers are the ones responsible for me treating AI threat seriously. Seeing how someone smart enough to post here get so....carried away, deciding to post it, and getting not lighthearted ridicule but upvotes and the usual “AGI around the corner” chatter reminds me that this community is still made of mere people, and worrying about AI is partly a cultural norm here, a meme. It also shifts my prior somewhat in favor of AI skepticism—if you guys can get carried away in this manner, perhaps in the AI-doom scenarios also have a critical flaw that I’m not bright enough to see? Hope so!