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What you’re missing is that Eliezer has been beating this drum a long time, while the rest of HN and the world is asleep at the wheel. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, a
by reducesuffering 3y ago
What you’re missing is that Eliezer has been beating this drum a long time, while the rest of HN and the world is asleep at the wheel.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and the original founders of OpenAI believe AGI is an existential threat and are building it with the belief that it’s best they’re the ones who do it, rather than worse people, in an arms race. Eliezer is the one saying “you fucking fools, you’re speeding up the arms race and have now injected a shit ton of $ from all VC into accomplishing the naive capabilities with no alignment.”
People don’t even realize that Elon Musk founded Neuralink with the belief that AGI is such an existential threat, we’re better off becoming the AGI cyborgs than a separate inferior intelligence. But most of the people thinking theyre so smart and understand the AGI X risk landscape here, even Elon fans, don’t know that.
- jacquesm 3y agoEliezer - we're all gonna die - Y has his own problems. People really watch too many movies. The real risk isn't AGI killing us all, the real risk is that plenty of people will think they are smart enough to create it and then to contain it whilst the ruthless faction of humanity uses it to set up shop in a way that they can never ever be dislodged again. Think global Mafia or something to that effect, or a world divided into three chunks by three major power blocs each with their own AI core. That's a much more likely outcome and one that on account of an incompetent board has just become a little bit more likely.