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Shankar Sivarajan's avatar

This is clearly just the "Bootleggers and Baptists" thing: sure, there are people who sincerely believe the end is nigh, that death comes on swift wings, "… machine in the likeness of a human mind" etc., but taking the Outside View, this is just the setup for regulatory capture of the sort we've seen so many times before.

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Ro's avatar

Didn't Jeffrey Hinton say there is nothing we can do to stop it? What does it mean to take a threat seriously when you can do nothing about it? I wonder about the conclusion as well. Is it not reasonable to evaluate a) the arguments or b) the proposed steps as the best course of action? What they're saying right now *isn't* a scientific prediction. It is very unlike the climate change predictions in that these --while uncertain--are based on scientific evidence such as models. So this is the reason people don't entirely cede to their expertise, since the claims they make are outside the domain of anyone's expertise.

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