yes, lol- ppl are confusing & exaggerating the details for var reasons but the central point oughta be clear- Yudkowsky made an extreme proposal bec he is sincerely talking about near-term **extinction of homo sapiens** not income inequality or political disinformation or etc https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1642222834591342594
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Reply · Aug 27, 2023@ESYudkowsky this is why I chat w gpt about scenarios, tho I am still not convinced of *extinction* risk as opposed to bad scary stuff that kills lots…Reply · Nov 30, 2022@hi_frye @prerationalist Ask odds of total human extinction even in this caseReply · Apr 5, 2023@RokoMijic @CircuitCorroder maybe the first 10 or 100 times... if we are truly talking about extinction of the human species you'd think out of the 8B…Reply · Aug 19, 2023@robinhanson ppl previously projected population explosion by extrapolating then-current trend into uncapped exponential growth... projecting the…