I can see an undertone of concern about large-scale job loss due to cognitive automation. It’s a catastrophe to personally prepare for, and it’s also a very important dynamic for forecasting and world modelling. But blurring the line between job automation and AI safety will cause some serious problems down the line, and that line was likely blurred for a sizeable proportion of the people who upvoted that comment (hopefully not a majority).
I can see an undertone of concern about large-scale job loss due to cognitive automation. It’s a catastrophe to personally prepare for, and it’s also a very important dynamic for forecasting and world modelling. But blurring the line between job automation and AI safety will cause some serious problems down the line, and that line was likely blurred for a sizeable proportion of the people who upvoted that comment (hopefully not a majority).
I still think it did a great job, but I was much more impressed with the twelve page introduction that Toby Ord wrote about AI safety in The Precipice.