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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion by reducesuffering on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:47AM (#48551975)
That's because one of the author's of AI 2027, Daniel Kokotajlo, an ex-OpenAI researcher, was the most prescient predictor of our modern situation from 2021:

https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/before-he-wrote-ai-2027-h...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-...

Anyone who wants to dismiss the LessWrong / X-Risk / "doomers" should link their accurate predictions from 2021.

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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion by cubefox on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:06AM (#48552551)
And one was Scott Alexander, who correctly predicted that GPT-2 would scale to general intelligence: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...
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