That's reductionist to the point of absurdity. You might be able to only focus on one thing at a time, but a day is long, and you need to worry about multiple things in a day to merely survive. In your free time, it is possible to worry about poverty, climate change, superintelligence, and many other things.
The reason that rich people worry about superintelligence is that it could bring the same uncaring devastation to the rich as climate change brings to the poor.
>The reason that rich people worry about superintelligence is that it could bring the same uncaring devastation to the rich as climate change brings to the poor.
The problem with this is that I believe one is a genuine threat, the other is a fad.
In what way? Do you not believe that superintelligence is possible, or do you believe that any superintelligence will automatically care about the well-being of humans? Both beliefs seem naive to me and to many luminaries in the field: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/research/future/.
That's reductionist to the point of absurdity. You might be able to only focus on one thing at a time, but a day is long, and you need to worry about multiple things in a day to merely survive. In your free time, it is possible to worry about poverty, climate change, superintelligence, and many other things.
The reason that rich people worry about superintelligence is that it could bring the same uncaring devastation to the rich as climate change brings to the poor.
>The reason that rich people worry about superintelligence is that it could bring the same uncaring devastation to the rich as climate change brings to the poor.
The problem with this is that I believe one is a genuine threat, the other is a fad.
> the other is a fad.
In what way? Do you not believe that superintelligence is possible, or do you believe that any superintelligence will automatically care about the well-being of humans? Both beliefs seem naive to me and to many luminaries in the field: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/research/future/.
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