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> This tweet is confirmation these people have no idea what they’re doing.

This is not an original point by me - I've seen multiple people make similar comments on here over the weekend - but these are the people who think they are best qualified to prevent an artificial superintelligence from destroying humanity, and they can't even coordinate the actions of a few intelligent humans.



>these are the people who think they are best qualified to prevent an artificial superintelligence from destroying humanity

do they believe that?

they happen to be the ones who can pull the brakes in order to allow someone on earth the chance to prevent it.

if they don't pull the brakes and if humankind is unlucky that superintelligence emerges quickly, then it doesn't matter whether or not anyone on earth can figure out alignment, nobody has the chance to try.




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