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Needs an editor tbh, far too long and waffly. I'm guessing from the title there may be a useful point to it, but it could do with some tough love to unearth it

• klipt 6y ago
  Since MIRI is all about the threat of advanced AI wiping out humanity, I assume their point is that AI could get past the point of no return without people realizing it (hence the titular lack of fire alarm) so they'd prefer you to send them money to study the threat of AI sooner rather than later.
• typon 6y ago
  "progress is closer than you might imagine"
  • umvi 6y ago
    "but it also may be much, much further away than you might imagine. That's the problem when you don't understand something. You don't know what you don't know."
• jbay808 6y ago
  It's not going to fit in a twitter thread, for sure, but I didn't find it hard to read and parse, even with the short attention span I have these days. I think the author is just writing in a frame of mind where he has dealt with a lot of people arguing with him, and he feels the need to stem the tide of common counterarguments to each point he makes before he moves to his next point. To me, that's actually less distracting then when an author ignores an important counterargument and leaves it unaddressed while continuing their point.