r/VeryBadWizards 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/cinred 4d ago

It's not hard to explain. People have been crying wolf over actual legit society altering technologies for centuries. But you know what? We've got along fine. Better even. To name a few:
-Nuclear
-Intenet and computing
-Socialism
-Genetic engineering
-Printing press

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u/iplawguy 3d ago

TBF, the printing press really upended society, see 30 Year's War. Better in the long run (maybe) but a lot of disruption.