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I would be interested to hear more about the assumptions that would imply climate change ends civilization within your lifetime.…
There is a lot to reflect on here but, having already commented enough, I won’t. Just one thing on climate…
Lovely to read these reflections on David, who was a wonderful man. He taught me as an undergraduate and was…
Thank you, David, for crafting this “normie” case for taking AI safety concerns very seriously. It’s very helpful. I’m going…
I’ll stay out of the math debate and stipulate that I mostly agree with David’s main post, but i think…
Point taken, David. That said, I think the arch tone of the NYT comment directs our attention not so much…
On recursive self-improvement: to be worried about it, all you need to believe is that it will probably speed up…
At a conference I attended recently in Brussels, a French economist was talking, over dinner, about the remarkable economic strides the Chinese were taking. Someone quipped, "Soon, we’ll all need to learn Mandarin." The economist replied:
The optimists say, "Soon we’ll all be studying Mandarin."
The pessimists are studying Mandarin already.
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