It's not that turning on the LHC *will* create a black hole that will swallow the Earth. But it could! Albeit no physicist thought so.
We do face credible existential threats, so why focus on fictive ones, like super-intelligence, LHC-created black holes, or alien invasions?https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/891019130626650113 …
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it was an exciting story!!
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Physicists, being responsible human beings, took LHC disaster scenarios very seriously, and investigated them thoroughly.
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Likewise most AI researchers take AI risks seriously (e.g. algo bias, job disruption). But no serious expert worried about superintelligence
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Not worried about alien invasions at all since humans are too crazy for most aliens (sarcasm)
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