Geoffrey Miller

Psych professor. Wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, Virtue Signaling. Wife: @sentientist. ⏸️

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

@andrew10612 @packers_owner_j @DKokotajlo You think Chinese leaders don't want their kids to survive?

Or do you think they're too stupid to understand extinction risks from unaligned ASI?

Which is it?

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@MaserSuspended @RepMcCormick Can you ask Grok instead of asking people to explain the basics of AI safety.

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@robinhanson Imho, it's sick and ghoulish to demand that parents bet on when their kids will die.

How do you not see that?

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Give it your all by fighting in the public domain to stop ASI development now.

'Technical AI safety work' at this point is nothing more than safety-washing for AI mega-corporations committed to building ASI at all costs.

If they really cared about extinction risks, they would have stopped already.

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

Within your lifetime, humanity will be fighting in a war against Artificial Superintelligence.

The only question is whether you fight that war before ASI is developed, or after it's developed.

The former will be _much_ easier to win that the latter.

Choose wisely.

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@LuizaJarovsky Yep. This seems gutless. He's got the power, the credibility, and the influence. Why isn't he using it to stop all further ASI development?

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@Raemon777 If we want to raise awareness and change people's minds, we should use methods known to reliably raise awareness and change people's minds.

Long earnest posts on LessWrong don't do that at scale.

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@BrendanNyhan Improved ASI helps terrorists make a highly lethal airborne bioweapon.
Game over.
See how easy that was?

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@FranciMinerva Because @DarioAmodei doesn't actually care about longevity.
He wants ASI at all costs.
The 'cure all diseases' is just a psyop.

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@softminus Sad but true.
And I say that as someone who's been very involved in EA since 2014.

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@danwilliamsphil On the other hand Newton might have spent more time on physics, and less on alchemy & biblical prophecy.

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@ForHumanityPod Yep. And we still have to take care of our kids and pay our bills.

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@Romy_Holland I know more than three such cases, personally.

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@robbysoave Sure, if they have no moral integrity as people, that's 'rational'.

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@IlinVasily29521 How would you respond to people in an industry that is willfully, knowingly, imposing extinction risks on all your kids?

Seriously. What would you think of them?

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

Good points.
And if all major American companies pause for safety reasons, China will be paying attention, and the CCP may also realize that a pause is prudent.
They're not suicidal, and if they understand the risks, they could enforce a pause even more effectively than the US government could.

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@HumanHarlan Why do you think there are _any_ worlds in which ASI alignment is a solvable problem?

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@waitbutwhy That's been my life since 2014 when I first started giving talks about AI risk.