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The warnings are an admission from the “Great Minds and a great Thinkers” that someone other than them has created something previously thought impossible or, a
by sanp 3y ago
The warnings are an admission from the “Great Minds and a great Thinkers” that someone other than them has created something previously thought impossible or, at the very least, several years / decades out. So, I am not sure ego is at play here.
Perhaps someone close to the problem (your actual scientists on the ground) is not capable / unwilling to accept the issues raised as that has direct (negative) impact on what they have created.
- ke88y 3y agoPerhaps. It's also possible that they don't understand how dangerous what they've created is because it feels so "normal" and "pedestrian" to them. See also: nuclear scientists getting radiation poisoning, I suppose. But that's also true for all of the other people being discussed, I would think. But I do think "wants to be in the discourse and on top" is a pretty strong correlate with the degree to which someone characterizes these as "concerns" vs "x-risk".