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The author claims to be “flabbergasted” that people would want to stop work on world-changing AI projects.

The gulf between otherwise smart people on this very important issue should depress us all. Personally I feel as if a mutant species has been released into the wild, yet as in Rick and Morty, some people think the wisest course is to release a lot more mutants.

People are fools. Hackers more than most— though we are productive and useful fools much of the time— but it hasn’t been a threat to humanity until recently.