How do you "backpedal" scientific research? Do you retract your publications, confuse the public and pay off the contributing researchers to keep silent?https://twitter.com/j2blather/status/1125434175924912128 …
maybe yes? if you have a design for a big bomb, and you release some plans for a plant that makes precursor chemical X, and people misuse that, then that's (a) a good sign to stop (b) not as bad as releasing the whole thing
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The nature of existential risk is that it exposes us to harm from which we cannot recover. I find that most people are so uncomfortable to consider the implications that they treat existential risks like normal risks that may just kill a few thousand people.
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Yep. I'm not arguing in defense of their position; I'm merely trying to devil's advocate it and see how it might be construed to be correct (steelmanning it). Perhaps early papers are tests that do not poses existential risks, but can act as canaries ?
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