https://xkcd.com/1968/ is #TheLastDerail in a nutshell. I can try to imagine hypotheses, but I'm not sure why Randall Monroe thinks this a clever thing to say. If I wrote a fictional character saying this straight out, I'd be accused of writing a 2D straw character.
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I think the "stupid normie status signaling" hypothesis is uncharitable and wrong. I think it's totally reasonable for smart geeks to be mainly worried about dystopian scenarios brought by ML, and to find AGI concerns a silly focus in comparison (again, not that I'd agree, but).
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+1. There are many commonly held clusters of views on things like timelines, the usefulness of present safety work, and the scale of misuse risks that could justify this conclusion without incoherence, even if they're wrong.
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