> You won't find the likes of Yudkowsky talking about this because they'd rather go on about their fan fiction than actually work to prevent real problems we may face soon. The fact that they've tricked some really smart people into going along with their shenanigans is extremely disappointing.
If they've tricked smart people into going along with their shenanigans, it was by making clear technical arguments for why AGI is an existential risk. The core argument is just
1. We might create ML models smarter than ourselves soon
2. We don't really understand how ML models work or what they might do
3. That seems dangerous
There's more to it than that of course, but most of the "more to it" is justifications for each of those steps (looking at the historical rate of progress, guessing what might go wrong during the training process, etc.).
The people who dismiss that AI is an existential risk might have really good counterarguments, but I've never heard one. The only counterarguments people seem to make are "people are scared of technology all the time, but usually they're wrong to be", "that seems like sci-fi nonsense", etc. If you want people to stop being "tricked" by Yudkowsky and co, the best way to do that would probably be to come up with some counterarguments and communicate them.
If they've tricked smart people into going along with their shenanigans, it was by making clear technical arguments for why AGI is an existential risk. The core argument is just
1. We might create ML models smarter than ourselves soon
2. We don't really understand how ML models work or what they might do
3. That seems dangerous
There's more to it than that of course, but most of the "more to it" is justifications for each of those steps (looking at the historical rate of progress, guessing what might go wrong during the training process, etc.).
The people who dismiss that AI is an existential risk might have really good counterarguments, but I've never heard one. The only counterarguments people seem to make are "people are scared of technology all the time, but usually they're wrong to be", "that seems like sci-fi nonsense", etc. If you want people to stop being "tricked" by Yudkowsky and co, the best way to do that would probably be to come up with some counterarguments and communicate them.