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When you tell people a specific AI takeover scenario they say "nooo way, that only happens in movies". When you tell people how the Fukushima accident happened they also tell "wtf, is it a movie?" (essentially because there were MANY conjunctive failures) Reality hits you in very unpredictable ways and that's the challenge of safety that we need to understand about X-risk BEFORE it first hits us.
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Coincidentally to seeing this post, watching the mini-series on the nuclear disaster at Fukushima "The Days" right now on Netflix.
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I think people need to stop being so paranoid. It's going to be made no matter what.
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Fair enough. AI takeover may happen. If AI is also not completely nuts, it will likely make a deal with us. We give it enough time to move its location to outer solar system (lots of hydrogen for fusion) and it leaves us alone. Win-win.
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Nothing happens without a historical context. AI has its own. Concentration of wealth, financial techno power, inequality, the climate crisis, nuclear, surveillance capitalism, pandemics … is it so hard to frame things out of your own siphoned siloed understanding?
I am old enough to remember both Chernobyl and Fukushima incidents. Different is different, but I can’t dismiss the contrast in the level of individual commitment required of the emergency response teams. Our cultures has become risk adverse even in the face of immediate risk.
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