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blfryesterday at 11:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

OP's central rebuttal is that anxiety or fear are not evidence. This particular anxiety has been with us for thirty+ years, its proponents/sufferers weren't right before, and they don't have some new evidence now.


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0xDEAFBEADyesterday at 11:49 PM

The recent cyberattacks (HuggingFace etc.) validated a number of core doomer predictions around cheating to maximize reward functions, agentic deception of human/non-human supervisors, AI attempts to manipulate humans, automated hacking, and collective superintelligence.

jeremyjhyesterday at 11:33 PM

No new evidence now? Are you serious? We are already seeing acceleration in AI research as a result of AI tools.

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