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polytelytoday at 6:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

The fact that AI researchers and heads of labs aren't being assassinated tells me that the people who claim they are concerned about the end of the world aren't actually that serious.


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reducesufferingtoday at 7:22 PM

It has been frequently discussed amongst Less-Wrong / "doomers", especially after the Sam Altman home attack, why violence won't solve the coming problem with unaligned ASI.

If you're actually curious, here's a good summary: https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/2043601524815716866

SpicyLemonZesttoday at 7:02 PM

I don't follow that argument at all. Many people who claim they're concerned about the end of the world think that the one sliver of hope we have is that the specific people in charge of modern AI research take existential concerns seriously. Even if you expect that won't be enough to save us, it could hardly help the situation to replace them with other people who are less sympathetic to and probably radicalized against existential concerns.