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Joshua Blake's avatar

So the argument is that: superintelligence is in theory possible, and a superintelligence is in theory very scary, so we should devote many resources to this problem no matter how unlikely?

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

I don't think the proponents would say many resources, rather more resources

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Joshua Blake's avatar

I would have thought determining the correct level of resources depends on the likelihood of bad outcomes, not only that they are possible

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

And knowledge of where you'd deploy the resources which needs an idea of not just likelihood but path dependency of technology

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