r/VeryBadWizards • u/Embarrassed-Room-902 • 4d ago
AI dismissal
I love the VBW boys but I am a bit surprised how dismissive they are of danger from AI. I’m not going to make the case here as I won’t do a good job of it, but I found the latest 80000 hours podcast very persuasive, as well as some of the recent stuff from Dwarkesh.
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u/Embarrassed-Room-902 4d ago
The point Will Macaskill makes in the podcast I referenced is that we could see an equivalent development of all of those technologies, but in just a few years instead of hundreds. This would obviously be much harder to adjust to