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by kalkin 1409 days ago
You are not doing yourself a service if you decide that "every available mechanism at your disposal" ought to include just completely misstating what the opinion actually is, as with the Pascal's Wager analogy.
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Do feel free to elaborate on "what the opinion actually is" and how, specifically, I have misstated it.
Did so in my comment to which you originally replied.

To be clear, I have no idea what argument you believe Bostrom is most famous for and hold no particular brief for him as a thinker. But, repeating myself, the AI risk argument that he makes in Superintelligence and that Yudkowsky etc make is one that assigns a high probability to disaster. It's not a secularized Pascal's Wager based on multiplying a low probability by dubious infinities.