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Top-level takeaway of tonight's catch-up reading on ML... I still find it hard to take AI Risk seriously as a special problem here. There are definite risks but they don't seem qualitatively different from other kinds of engineering risk.
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Yup. I reached basically this conclusion a few years ago. Most conceptualizations of a hostile AI are a "how *I* might be evil" projection. I can guess how Golem allegory is used now. Looks like I might have saved myself some time if I'd persisted with Wiener beyond a quick gloss