My dad, a professionally evangelical fundamentalist Christian with no exposure to rationality, somehow independently discovered lesswrong and is now really worried about AI. idk if this means AI risk is going more mainstream or if it's a genetic disposition thing
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Don't underestimate the role of genetics causing the correlation between you and your dad both being interested and worried.
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For people coming in with no context, the two major debate factions are "my AI alignment technique will prevent the default outcome where we accidentally create an alien god that wipes out humanity for alien purposes", and "that won't work and we're fucked".
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Don't forget the "our best hope is that some of the UFOs are aliens and there is no way they will let us unleash a paperclip maximizer on the light cone, and they might just stop us using means short of our extermination."
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I've realized this year I'm way more zen than everyone else about me or humanity ending tomorrow
sometimes I want to list every potential biological, geological, & astronomical catastrophe to worry abt before AI but it might be like the end of radiohead's just music video
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Dated a girl 22 years ago. Things didn’t work out but her 20yo daughter shows up in rationalist circles couple of years back. Anecdotal but makes me wonder…
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😂 I might have wrongfully implied she might be my kid - impossible, which makes the connection more interesting imo
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