pandemic is bad for humans is bad for the economy is "bad" for AGI timelines is good for humans??
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Replying to @jessi_cata @zackmdavis
Yudkowsky-rationalists routinely fail to examine the conflict theoretic / zero sum implications of treating differential tech progress as the only important good and end up with perverse implications like "maybe nuclear war is good" become a conflict theorist instead
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let me try to unpack this: "if I say things like "deadly catastrophes are good because they forestall UFAI", I'm providing verbal ammunition to people who are careless about nuclear war and pandemics"?
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"whether it's true or not that catastrophes could be long-run-net-good for humanity, you'd *rather* prevent UFAI some other more humane way, so you shouldn't talk like it's okay to kill lots of humans, that just makes more people okay with killing humans"?
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