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by JKCalhoun 761 days ago
I feel like we'll know right away though. We can then act right away.

I'm not sure what you would do now that is different because you are anticipating such a thing.

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It would be far too late by that point, as it can already take measures to stop us. This is a difficult problem and we really should have started putting a lot more effort into this a lot earlier. Of course we can’t test a superintelligence directly yet, but we should do as much theoretical work as we can

Actually the video addresses this point, the comparison it makes is waiting until we’re already on Mars before we start thinking about spacesuits and airlocks