Yeah, but… Selection effects, in an evolutionary sense, are relevant over multiple generations. The time scale of the effects we’re thinking about are less than the time scale of a single generation.
This is less of a “magic attack that destroys everyone” and more of one of a thousand cuts which collectively bring down society.
Some people get affected by arguments, others by distracting entertainment, others by nootropics that work well but stealthily have permanent impacts on fertility, some get caught up in terrorist attacks by weird AI-led cults.… Just, a bunch of stuff from a bunch of angles.
Yeah, my argument was “this particular method of causing actual human extinction would not work” not “causing human extinction is not possible”, with a side of “agents learn to ignore adversarial input channels and this dynamic is frequently important”.
Yeah, but… Selection effects, in an evolutionary sense, are relevant over multiple generations. The time scale of the effects we’re thinking about are less than the time scale of a single generation. This is less of a “magic attack that destroys everyone” and more of one of a thousand cuts which collectively bring down society. Some people get affected by arguments, others by distracting entertainment, others by nootropics that work well but stealthily have permanent impacts on fertility, some get caught up in terrorist attacks by weird AI-led cults.… Just, a bunch of stuff from a bunch of angles.
Yeah, my argument was “this particular method of causing actual human extinction would not work” not “causing human extinction is not possible”, with a side of “agents learn to ignore adversarial input channels and this dynamic is frequently important”.