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> Nick Bostrom etc Someone who's primarily famous for an argument that would have been equally true and perfectly wrong at every past point in human history is
by dogecoinbase 4y ago
> Nick Bostrom etc
Someone who's primarily famous for an argument that would have been equally true and perfectly wrong at every past point in human history is someone whose opinion should be discounted via every available mechanism at your disposal.
- kalkin 4y agoYou are not doing yourself a service if you decide that "every available mechanism at your disposal" ought to include just completely misstating what the opinion actually is, as with the Pascal's Wager analogy.
- dogecoinbase 4y agoDo feel free to elaborate on "what the opinion actually is" and how, specifically, I have misstated it.
- kalkin 4y agoDid so in my comment to which you originally replied. To be clear, I have no idea what argument you believe Bostrom is most famous for and hold no particular brief for him as a thinker. But, repeating myself, the AI risk argument that he makes in Superintelligence and that Yudkowsky etc make is one that assigns a high probability to disaster. It's not a secularized Pascal's Wager based on multiplying a low probability by dubious infinities.