I think another John Wentworth post is applicable here. It’s not hard to invent reasons why any given post might increase existential risk by some amount. (What if your comment encourages pro-censorship attitudes that hamper the collective intellectual competence we need to reduce existential risk?) In order to not function as trolling, you need to present a case for the risk being plausible, not just possible.
Is this blog post potentially a source of X-risk? Popularizing the idea of “mix together chemicals you got in the mail” sounds like an attack vector for an AGI wanting to escape its box.
No, an AGI would already have to escaped it’s box to take over companies from which you can order chemicals and sent out what it wants. From there it can simply pay people to do what it wants. EmeraldCloud Lab also exists and could mix out what the AGI wants. Plenty of people take drugs they order on the Darknet.
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I think another John Wentworth post is applicable here. It’s not hard to invent reasons why any given post might increase existential risk by some amount. (What if your comment encourages pro-censorship attitudes that hamper the collective intellectual competence we need to reduce existential risk?) In order to not function as trolling, you need to present a case for the risk being plausible, not just possible.
No, an AGI would already have to escaped it’s box to take over companies from which you can order chemicals and sent out what it wants. From there it can simply pay people to do what it wants. EmeraldCloud Lab also exists and could mix out what the AGI wants. Plenty of people take drugs they order on the Darknet.