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by nbouscal 3364 days ago
Have you read any of the estimates? Basically every expert gives a huge confidence interval, as do most of the people actively working on AI risk.
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Saying you are 95% confident AGI will come between 50-100 years (a "huge" confidence interval), is still far too confident.
I don't recall seeing 95% confidence intervals that narrow. Even the 90% confidence intervals I see are usually like 5-150 or something. (Also it would be super weird to me if the lower bound of someone's 95%CI was 50.)