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by exe34 671 days ago
> And it seems to me that if the AI industry wanted to distract us from harms, they would give us optimistic scenarios.

Nah it has to appear plausible.

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People are very good at promising a better future in a non-specific way and without much evidence. That's kinda how Brexit happened.

It's when you get the specific details of a utopia that you upset people — for example, every time I see anti-aging discussed here, there's a bunch of people for whom that is a horror story. I can't imagine being them, and they can't imagine being me.