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 …
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.
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it was an exciting story!!
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Albeit a numbers of researchers, even if minority, do think AI can be dangerous, as you well know!
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Bad analogy; science must never be settled by polling "experts"! 1/2
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LHC worries ignored because several (much more) highly energetic cosmic ray collisions on earth over billions of years i.e. *data* 2/2
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