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Many people respond to arguments for AI extinction risk with "that's science fiction", "that's fear-mongering", "you should instead focus on bias & misinformati
by cubefox 3y ago
Many people respond to arguments for AI extinction risk with "that's science fiction", "that's fear-mongering", "you should instead focus on bias & misinformation in the here and now", etc. These "counterarguments" seem to be often motivated by the inability to imagine such a big catastrophy as it exceeds the previous ones.
- ggm 3y agoI think you are both in a semantic linguistic argument. If person a and b are in dispute about topic c, then definitionally they can both hold concept c in their head as a named concept. When somebody says "that's inconceivable" they mean something figuratively not literally.