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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by mcguire on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:32PM (#36143919)
It's Pascal's Wager, right (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/)?

Sure, the probability of AI-triggered extinction is lowish, but the consequences are essentially infinite, so we are justified in focusing entirely on the AI-extinction threat. (But I guess it's not infinite enough to justify rounding up all the AI researchers and shooting them?)

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Re:The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it... by mrguyorama on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:45PM (#36144765)
And just like Pascal's Wager, it's fucking bollocks. You can't just make up numbers and probabilities and imagined scenarios to invent the outcome you want.

It's rhetorical sleight of hand.

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