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A lot of things being potential existential threats doesn't make them equally threatening. Things like climate change, psychometric test levels and birth rates
by dumberquestions 2mo ago
A lot of things being potential existential threats doesn't make them equally threatening.
Things like climate change, psychometric test levels and birth rates change slowly and give us time to react, things like nuclear weapons are accessible to only a select number of actors, AI enabled bioweapons is neither of those.
- piloto_ciego 2mo ago> change slowly Really? A handful of generations is prettt quickly. And let’s be real, the kind of idiot who would make a bioweapon that could kill everyone is probably not smart enough to do it. The trope of the malevolent evil genius is overblown. Maybe if we build 3d printers that can print individual cells or whatever, but other than a Tokyo subway sort of attack by a cult of lunatics I’m less worried about this than say, other potential catastrophes like Claude 9.0 pushing a change to prod that shuts off the water treatment plant or something similar.