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  1. 16 Jun 2018

    Conditional on AGI extinguishing humanity, lost jobs are hardly more important. So this argument only makes sense if you think AGI is impossible or alignment is easy. So you should just argue that claim; the part about jobs is irrelevant.

    AI+ethics is important, but has been partly hijacked by the AGI (artificial general intelligence) hype. Let's cut out the AGI nonsense and spend more time on the urgent problems: Job loss/stagnant wages, undermining democracy, discrimination/bias, wealth inequality.
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  2. 24 Jul 2018

    "Lol, status-as-ontological-weight? I guess that explains . It's not that they're trying to distract you from the apocalypse by pointing to inequality, they think they're lowering the probability of AGI ruin by performing lowering its status."

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  3. 26 Aug 2017

    Another entry in the "But why worry about absolute and final ruin if self-driving cars?" campaign

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  4. 11 Apr 2018

    We can recover from tyrannical world governments and AI-assisted war. We cannot recover from unaligned ASI. It's that simple.

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  5. 24 Jul 2018
    Replying to

    For context, I have a growing suspicion that less-than-full-fidelity memetic spread of "OMG, AGI" has causally brought humanity closer to building unsafe AGI sooner - Legg, Musk, etc. I don't claim that deployers of are being *strategic*, but they might be helping.

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  6. 31 Mar 2018

    Notice how all the headlines in the tag start with the word "forget"? It's almost as thought there's something they don't want you to think about.

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  7. Jan 14

    Possibly derived from this Ted Chiang piece in Buzzfeed where it’s more explicitly combined with .

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  8. Jan 5
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    Responding to (the very eminent) Rodney Brooks does not mean I'm not responding to anyone else. And the fact that top names with big resources are resorting to and is object-level news about AGI safety, not just about arguments about AGI safety.

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  9. 27 Jul 2018
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    Chiang is engaged in :

    Replying to @egfalken @robinhanson
    This is a straightforward failure to comprehend the technical idea of by , mixed with . What humans usually think of as moral arguments doesn't enter into it.
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  10. Jan 5
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    (Note: Brooks did not use .)

  11. 13 Mar 2018

    Is there a word for this? Hmmm... (source: )

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  12. 31 Aug 2017

    I wonder if there's an actual PR campaign behind (never mind that apocalypse, whatabout corporations!)

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  13. 29 Mar 2018

    is in a nutshell. I can try to imagine hypotheses, but I'm not sure why Randall Monroe thinks this a clever thing to say. If I wrote a fictional character saying this straight out, I'd be accused of writing a 2D straw character.

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  14. 2 Apr 2018
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    Very sensible. But the percentages are irrelevant if there is in fact a category error at the root of the comparison. Admittedly this is an "empiricist or rationalist?" thing, but the "billions die" position is purely conjectural. position is not.

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  15. Jan 14

    Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear via

  16. 28 Aug 2017

    Here's a link about posted last week See the rest at

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