I think all of this is reasonable and we'd probably have an interesting in-person discussion. I think flight is a good comparison. Before human flight it was p

I think all of this is reasonable and we'd probably have an interesting in-person discussion. I think flight is a good comparison. Before human flight it was possible to speculate about the risks. The machines we built turned out to use shared underlying principles with birds, but ultimately we can do it differently. We can supply more power and as a result do things at a scale not present in the natural world. Maybe it's the case that intelligence is a special case with special constraints, but I suspect it's not. As a result it makes sense for some people to try to solve alignment now because if it ends up not being constrained then by the time we need it, it'll be too late to figure out the problem. Maybe we'll get lucky (like we did with nuclear weapons not being able to be made by any random person in their backyard), but I wouldn't bet on it.