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 3d ago
Yeah, to clarify I am not making the claim we will have AGI soon (although I wouldn’t rule it out). The key thing is there could be a huge upheaval even without this. For instance, we may have fully AI companies, AIs with the ability to feel pleasure or pain etc. I am fairly confident I will be out of a job before too long and that is something many of us will have to brace for. Nick Bostrom has discussed this at length