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My first paragraph was quite substantive which you didn’t really address, other than asserting in the last sentence that one’s intelligence does not give one power in the world. Perhaps the intelligence of an individual does not mean much in most cases, but we already have ample evidence that a sufficiently intelligent species (when we include social intelligence in the definition) can dominate all others which are stronger, faster, or multiply faster.

Reminder: An AGI will be much faster at communicating and (if not successfully contained) multiplying than humans ever could.

Major AI research organizations including DeepMind and OpenAI have AI safety programs and people working full-time on it.

My second paragraph in GP was a reply in kind to your…

“This field is fairly silly because it just involves people making up a lot of incoherent concepts and then asserting they're both possible (because they seem logical after 5 seconds of thought) and likely (because anything you've decided is possible could eventually happen). When someone brings it up, rather than debate it, it'd be a better use of time to tell them they're being a nerd again.”

In retrospect, I shouldn’t have said it. But it’s also quite disappointing that your several paragraphs of reply largely doubled down on ad hominem attack to anyone who disagrees with you (eg by implying they all follow a prophet without thinking; I’d say many would be capable of reaching similar conclusions on their own).

Even Yann LeCun and other top researchers who disagree with the current AI safety programs were not so dismissive of the concerns. Note that many other top AI researchers do have concerns themselves. Bengio and Russell are some examples. I’ll stop here since it’s likely unproductive to continue.