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1. panny · 1791136228 · focus · HN ↗

   My entire opinion of AI safety has been colored by the fact that I recently learned AI safety is a sex cult.

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   1. ianm218 · 1791137670 · focus · HN ↗

      It seems like to me it would be more effective to focus on the object level aspects of their arguments rather than their weird lives? Their argument isn’t “look at my credentials, I’m an expert you must believe me” it’s that “ML research is largely math and science engineering, as AI gets better at math and science it can use that to speed up the cycle at which point something bad could happen”.

      These Bay Area people dedicated their lives to AI risk often before AlexNet even showed deep learning could scale, by definition they are eccentric people.

      At the same time, people like the AI 2027 guys (who that article speaks poorly of)… have been basically fully on the money so far.

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