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by FeepingCreature 1314 days ago
I agree with your description of the AGI/ASI position.

My take on it is the other way around: every step of the argument seems plainly obvious.

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Plainly, that is not the case, as you are choosing to not spend your every waking moment to stop the antichrist AI coming into existence.

So either it's less obvious than you're claiming, or you are taking the threat of creating an evil AGI not seriously enough according to your own beliefs.

I don't spend every waking moment stopping lots of things that could kill us all. Nuclear war, climate change, gain-of-function research.

I just don't care that much about things that kill everyone. I don't think almost anyone does. In the Cold War, the vast majority of the population was not doing absolutely everything to achieve bilateral disarmament. This would lead you to believe that they didn't really expect nuclear war. But maybe they were just apathetic and helpless.