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Outside of Hollywood, poor quality media pieces and philosophy undergrads and dilettantes, who talks about artificial intelligence as if being "alive" or "sentient" is a key issue?
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Okay – maybe it's a question of how much. There are people really into simulations and uploads, which seems like a far future thing. But I don't hear much of that from e.g. EA circles, people concerned about AI risk... not even Yudkowsky, relative to the concern about alignment.