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 …
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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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