[dragonwriter]

> First I’ll point out it would already be a dream come true for extending our AI doom timelines if the only people who can actually do AI research without fear of being extradited to a bounty-friendly nation is to work in a government lab.

Yeah, the problem with AI doomers is that they let fantastic baseless estimates of p(doom) drown out much more imminent risks, such as AI asymmetry facilitating tyranny, which is an immediate, near-term, high-probability risk.