He refuses to engage earnestly with the “doomer” arguments. The same type of motivated reasoning could also be attributed to himself and Meta’s financial goals - it’s not a persuasive framing.
The attempts I’ve seen from him to discuss the issue that aren’t just name calling are things like saying he knows smart people and they aren’t president - or even that his cat is pretty smart and not in charge of him (his implication being intelligence doesn’t always mean control). This kind of example is decent evidence he isn’t engaged with the risks seriously.
The risk isn’t an intelligence delta between smart human and dumb human. How many chimps are in Congress? Are any in the primaries? Not even close. The capability delta is both larger than that for AGI e-risk and even less aligned by default.
I’m glad others in power similarly find Yann unpersuasive.
He refuses to engage earnestly with the “doomer” arguments. The same type of motivated reasoning could also be attributed to himself and Meta’s financial goals - it’s not a persuasive framing.
The attempts I’ve seen from him to discuss the issue that aren’t just name calling are things like saying he knows smart people and they aren’t president - or even that his cat is pretty smart and not in charge of him (his implication being intelligence doesn’t always mean control). This kind of example is decent evidence he isn’t engaged with the risks seriously.
The risk isn’t an intelligence delta between smart human and dumb human. How many chimps are in Congress? Are any in the primaries? Not even close. The capability delta is both larger than that for AGI e-risk and even less aligned by default.
I’m glad others in power similarly find Yann unpersuasive.