Ok I gotta be honest I thought the people accusing this of being a false flag were being silly. OpenAI has done some bad things, but surely they would not make fake twitter accounts impersonating their opposition and having those accounts post calls for violence.
...My mistake.
A team of about 3 from @ControlAI cold-emailed the UK Parliament about AI extinction risk. At the time they had no contacts, insider help, or established organisation behind them.
16 months later: 125 cross-party signatories, two House of Lords debates, and a Commons amendment.
@visakanv@baltsgauntlet Surprising to see this take from you Visa. That a person is responsible for their own consumption is obviously true, regardless of who said it first.
@XplodingCabbage True. My frustration is more when the most obvious model correctly predicts bad consequences e.g. econ 101 for price controls. It's not a good idea even in theory, but people want to treat charitably destructive policies which purport to have a nice effect.
I often see people quote a study about men leaving their wives when they get sick.
However, that study was completely retracted for a coding error that nullified the result!
In response, they released a super p-hacked result lol
@TypeForVictory Selfishness is underrated, especially the kind of selfishness that saves lives. Hopefully both of these MPs are giving effectively.
https://t.co/WJo11U6QJC
@CoughsOnWombats "More" invites the question "more than what/when?", "More and more" clearly means increasing over time to this day. Not saying that makes sense really but it is my intuition and probably that of other readers too.
@AndyMasley Bezos likes to ask "what will still be true in 5-10 years time?" to inform what to invest in. Unfortunately for AI reasonable estimates include total human disempowerment/extinction, so it is genuinely very hard to know what skills will be useful, if any!