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It is extraordinarily emotionally hard for someone to stare down the terrible implications of what is unfolding. All manner of rationalization and cope will be
by reducesuffering 2mo ago
It is extraordinarily emotionally hard for someone to stare down the terrible implications of what is unfolding. All manner of rationalization and cope will be applied to come up with excuses; motivated reasoning.
The CIA director will call AGI capabilities "digital nuclear weapons" and Geoffrey Hinton will estimate a 50% probability AGI ends humanity, and half of HN will call every new evidence of disaster a marketing stunt.
- hedora 2mo agoWhy should we believe a pro-genocide crackpot political appointee from east Texas, and a computer scientist that somehow got a Nobel prize instead of a Turing award?
- reducesuffering 2mo agoWhy should we believe someone who can't do basic due diligence that Hinton did indeed receive a Turing award? https://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm https://amturing.acm.org/byyear.cfm