> The folks closest to the problem are the least able to worry. I was chatting with a researcher from OpenAI the other day who told me he intellectually underst

> The folks closest to the problem are the least able to worry. I was chatting with a researcher from OpenAI the other day who told me he intellectually understood AGI risks, but couldn't feel the fear emotionally, because he was so close to the problem and saw how hard it was to get these models to do anything. The first sentence is disingenuous in the meaning of the second sentence. That researcher is perfectly capable of being concerned. However, they’re the expert, and they’re observing first hand the “state of the art”, which they’re not concerned about. You’re caught up in your own imagination assuming that AGI must be taking off that you think you get to criticize experts’ calm rationale.