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have you spent 3 hours or more total researching potential risks of agi (generalized artificial intelligence)? || you'd estimate the chances of agi causing the end of human civilization to be above or below 1% in the next 30 years

no || above
11.9%
no || below
37.8%
yes || above
20.7%
yes || below
29.6%

3,175 votesFinal results

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most unrealistic responses, I do not believe 50% of yall have spent 3 or more hours researching agi risks

5:42 PM · Jul 28, 2021

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3 hours in our entire life is nothing. Reading something random in passing easily adds up

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sure but I'm used to my twitter following being retarded

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Does watching Terminator count as research?

Immortal Damask

@immortalDamask

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Pretty sure I spent more than 3 hours watching Battlestar Galactica though... 🤔

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Three hours isn't very long.

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My suspicion is that the word "researching" is the biggest source of connotative range here.

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NYC (Feb22–Mar13)

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I read the waitbutwhy articles about it, and then spent the rest of the day googling around, diving into subreddits, etc I have spent multiple counts of 6+ hours researching much less consequential bullshit lol

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I watched the Terminator films, i am way above the 3 hour mark 😂

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@johnnydocontra

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Two youtube lectures is enough to reach 3 hours.

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Does reading articles by Scott Alexander count?

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