"smart people" 
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Side note: cults love cosmic thinking. "Here's the destiny of our universe / here's an evil threat that will destroy the Milky Way / we're descended from an alien race of Angels that lived millions of years ago in a different galaxy". You can never be grandiose enough.
The bigger the claim, the more disconnected from reality, the easier it is to believe it (and the harder it is to refute it)
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I like sci-fi too. In particular sci-fi with grandiose, cosmic perspectives. It's what I consume instead of religion. Sometimes I let it influence my research directions. But not my immediate policy making.
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Cults and sci-fi are pretty similar -- you could base a cult on the Alien series storyline -- but in one case there's a system of emotional and financial exploitation attached (and a cult of personality)
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Sir, I know how the fast-growing hierarchy is defined and tied for leadership of the XKCD Largest Computable Number contest. If I was just making up large stakes with no concern for epistemics, I wouldn't pick a small quantity like the local Hubble volume. Ackermann 5 at least.
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Well obviously it’s not about just arbitrarily large stakes without concern for epistemics - it’s got to get other people on board and engaged, the universe will do that better than busy beavers
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Im confused what claim you are referring to here
@fchollet ? Im also wondering how seriously you take AI safety? Where do you rank it in terms of exestential threats?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Could you clarify the case against A.I. alignment worry? The case for seems pretty solid to me - 1. We might be able to create something smarter than us. 2. If we do, it might not care about us. 3. If it doesn't, we will be in big trouble.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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