You know, if back in 2003 I’d said that in 2019 a common reaction to AGI ruin would be saying “Whatabout corporations tho?”, people would have accused me of making an overly specific prediction about the hard-to-foretell future and asked me where I got the exact date 2019
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But they would *also* have accused me of excessive cynicism.
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(Though, to be fair, I don’t think any of us predicted that general public epistemology would turn to slush the way it did.)
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I'm not sure it HAS been getting worse. I suspect you're being exposed to a more motivated-reasoning driven and politically aware/manipulative segment of the population as the idea of AI risk gains traction and poses a growing near-term threat to vested interests.
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i see random people i've never heard of express reasonable AI risk opinions pretty frequently and it still blows my mind each time. i suppose that could be things like bostrom's book compensating for general epistemic decay
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many bad takes like "digital computers can never think" seem to have pretty much died out
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