Comment by 0xDEAFBEAD
2 months ago
Humans are inherently bad at reasoning about rare events. In 2019, many people implicitly reasoned that "since there hasn't been a pandemic in the past 3 years, there won't be one in 2020". Bill Gates was one of the few voices arguing that the world was quite vulnerable to a pandemic. Now he's arguing that the world is quite vulnerable to AI.
> many people implicitly reasoned that "since there hasn't been a pandemic
...pandemics are precedented. There's a world of difference between that and a fully hypothetical catastrophe that you can't even describe without looking and feeling silly.
Bill Gates is Epstein's pal, and not a very intelligent person to-boot. I trust his liberal musings about as much as I trust Chomsky's hysterical and discredited views concerning AI.
>fully hypothetical catastrophe that you can't even describe without looking and feeling silly.
The HuggingFace hack fell into that category not long ago, yet it happened anyways.