While most people claim not to believe in short AGI timelines, their actions tell a different story. Unless you’re sure the world will end in 20 years anyway, you ought to be panicking about this, or declining sperm counts - but you already believed deep down there was no future. https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/1109151609127350272 …
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
The simple explanation is that people just don't panic about awful things that are going to happen in 20 years, whether they believe in them or not. Supporting evidence: climate change, AI, sperm counts, ocean plastic, honey bees, and bananas.
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Replying to @bleepbeepbzzz
Maybe I’m just imagining things, but I seem to remember a time and a culture when people did care about this, or did a much better job of pretending because there was a perception that caring was what you were supposed to do.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bleepbeepbzzz
i blame the paul ehrlichs of this world. growing collective memories of failed predictions of doom. without having looked into it i suspect none of the issues mentioned are very serious except climate change, which people very much are panicking about (in words not deeds), and ai
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definitely seems to me there's currently a perception that caring about the environment is what you're supposed to do
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