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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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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The idea here seems to be that the risk is not the research result itself, but the irresponsible public, and you contain the risk by regularly testing the public's responsibility? There might be a flaw in this approach...
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